Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

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 read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.