I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

When I go to dance clubs, I always dance with big girls, so we finish at the same time.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

We got famous off singing about a chicken.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.