"Religion leaves no room for human complexity."

"I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there."

"I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool."

"I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers."

"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

"Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."