The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.