You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Go have fun and make money

I can resist everything but love.

Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.