I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.