Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Share and share alike

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy but more than anything live it fully.

My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.