Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.