After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.