I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.