But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

What have I become?My sweetest friend

Don't be discourage by your problems.Let your passion and dreams inspired you to keep moving forward.

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

I don't think I've ever met Putin. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so.

There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.