I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I have no sugar. I don’t eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.