You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose.

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I wear black all the time.

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.