I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

Making movies is nice, man. A movie with some money behind it? Sweet. So many snacks and stuff. Name-brand. And many different kinds of coffee.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

It's clever, but is it art?

That was the hottest haircut ever.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.