It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him