Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.