There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

It’s like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

The Democrats are now an upscale party.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.