I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.