You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.

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.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.