The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.