I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.

I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'