It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.

I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.

I love adventures so to me, the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

He forgives without any strings attached.

I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.

Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.