If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

It takes time to become myself every morning.

People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".