The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.