Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.