What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.