[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

You're a monster. You'll go to hell.""Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Every director works differently.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

You just have to belong. Long to be.

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.