Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.