Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

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