We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.