I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.