We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

I dont watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when youre alone and someones voice is coming through their work. Theres a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.