If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Contemporary art hates you.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.