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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Life Teaches You Several Things, It says 'Hi' & Gives You 'Good', It Says 'Hello' & Gives you 'Better', It says ''Wait" & Gives You "The Best

A single change can sometimes change your entire life

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?