It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.