Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, I guess I like a lot of 70's music.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.