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.

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.

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.

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

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

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

I'm composing and writing music.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

My best friend is my husband.