Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

J E S U S means Justify Eternally after being Sanctified with the Understanding of the Scripture .

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane