Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.