I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it..

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner..

I'm always geeking out about something..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

Unless you go forward then you are going back..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally..

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music..

The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on E….

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon..

Thou shalt not take anything on faith.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was..

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to li….