I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?