I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.