I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

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 mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.