You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.