The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

Life is a grand party.

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.