I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.