When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.