"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world."

"I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things."

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."

"I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business."