I've always been a direct guy.

I've always been a direct guy.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

Music is important.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.

In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre - human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.

The discipline is the key to the success of your life purpose; without that, you reach no anywhere.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen year old boy, and will remain a fifteen year old boy till they die!

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'