I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.