When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.

It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.