I'll be more specific.
When I see this group of quotes, they seem to point to Delta quadra values, and it sounds more like Delta ST stuff:
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"I have a low threshold for boredom," he says. "I’d rather do stuff than talk about doing stuff. The idea is to work vigorously. All my heroes work vigorously: Miles Davis, Duke Ellington. I’d rather do that than take three months off to find myself on some beach."
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He recently turned down a six-figure offer from a Japanese liquor company -- a la Bill Murray in Lost In Translation – to sit still for a whiskey advertisement ("I don’t hang out with alcohol," he says). He also won’t do drugs or smoke cigarettes.
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"I have never been tempted," he says. "I have been drunk about three times. In ‘87 I tried marijuana for the one and only time. Tried LSD. Interesting. Can lose your mind. Something told me, 'you’re not doing this anymore' and I said, 'right' and I didn’t."
He gets his high from working. He’s been doing it since he was ten, in the suburbs of DC.
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"I hate writing," he says. "I just wish I could stop but I can’t. Writing is not a joy to me. The better you get at it, the harder it is, because it’s less time that you bullshit yourself. I’ve met a handful of writers and they’re pretty miserable people. Because they know that the beast is sitting in the room saying, 'come on. You know you’ve been playing around with your friends long enough. Back to class.'"
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You can always find deep meaning in the tattoos, right on his person.
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"...I wanted to be different. I wanted to customize the chassis. I used to think that by decorating the exterior you change the interior. I don’t get tattooed anymore, but I don’t regret anything that is on me."
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"Do I get recognized? Within one traffic light. The car next to me. Within a minute of walking to any hotel, airport, restaurant, store…within a minute. I see my name being lip-synched by someone pointing at me. It comes with. But do I have to run from paparazzi? No. They want the young, handsome guy with the hot chick. Not the short graying man who walks alone. I’m so not interesting to these people. I can’t tell you how little they give a fuck, which is fine. It allows me to do what I need to do."
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"The girls in my office say that I’m dysfunctional and I’m losing the plot,” he says. "[They say that], 'you don’t know anyone. Your phone doesn’t ring.' And they’re right. I go out on Friday and buy a whole weekend’s worth of food and I hope that the phone doesn’t ring. I do a whole weekend’s worth of reading and writing and thinking. The girls in the office say I don’t know how to relate, but I get the work done. I’ve always lived alone. I’m the loner type. It makes sense to me. I have no interest in being married. There used to be a lot of rumors about me being gay because there was not a chick on my arm, but I’m completely heterosexual. I’m just really discreet."
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"You gotta be a good American. You gotta help the old lady up the stairs. The cold guy gets a blanket. We all pitch in, whether you’re making $2.50 an hour or $2 million a year. I consider every American my countryman. Even if they’re in the Klan or not. They are my neighbor. I may not like them, but at the end of the day, I have their back. Bush, for instance: I’m not a fan. If he was hungry, could he have half my sandwich? Absolutely. I don’t like him, but I don’t want him to starve to death. I just want him to get a new job."
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"If there is work to be done, I’m doing it. You always learn something."