Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.