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

Music is just air moving around.

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. So I sort of turn things over to whatever you want to call it - whether it's God, or the universe or the spirit of the universe - and I just sort of turn things over to God and hope that this spirit that has been around for 15 billion years will have a better understanding of how things should be than I do.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

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

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.