But my favorite work is always my next piece.

My art became very public.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

I've always been a fine artist.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.

My favorite animal is steak.

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Life: my favorite occupation.

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.