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

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

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.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.