I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I will always have a stutter.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist