I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.