A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.