Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.