I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?

The rain fell like dead bullets.

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.

I'd like to say that I'm a binge-watcher, but I don't really have time. I think the most I've done in a sit-down is three episodes, maybe. It depends.