"I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner."

"There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world."

"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic."

"Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been."

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

"It is a radiant truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while."

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."