Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

If you're scared of dying you better not be scared to live.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.