Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.