I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.