All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists / Terry Gross. [print]

Don't do it Nicolas Cage -- Like a skinny boxer Chris Rock -- Being square John Updike -- A man's voice Johnny Cash -- Lift everything up Charlie Haden -- Erotic cheese and crackers Mary Karr -- A new gift Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III -- The craft itself Uta Hagen -- Use the disadvantage Michael Caine -- Right in the gut Mickey Spillane -- You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon -- We all die Walter Mosley -- A family courtesy Mario Puzo -- Make sense of it later George Clinton -- Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day Bootsy Collins -- Dissonance Nick Hornby -- In the junkyard Grandmaster Flash -- Alive in a coffin Paul Schrader -- A difficult place to grow up Jodie Foster -- I never told jokes Albert Brooks -- Beauty gone berserk Divine -- Kissing and licking boots Mary Woronov -- To iron a shirt Joyce Johnson -- So what? / Larry Rivers -- Not to think Sonny Rollins -- Send the salami Hal David -- Like raw meat Isabella Rossellini -- A little out of whack Dennis Hopper -- The way people look Chuck Close -- It gets harder Frank Stella -- Mom, Dad, I want to be a tap dancer Conan O'Brien -- Nothing else would matter Eric Clapton -- A large feminine side Steven Tyler and Joe Perry -- Too much for you to take Gene Simmons -- Dramatic beats Samuel L. Jackson -- Stop acting Dustin Hoffman -- In that hurricane James Baldwin -- A place of protection Carol Shields -- A fraudulent angel Maurice Sendak.

The award-winning host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air presents a selection of her interviews with some of the most celebrated actors, musicians, writers, artists, and comics of the day.

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