On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

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.

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.

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.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.