I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.