Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.