It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write.

Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.

Come back here so that I may brain thee!