Everyone in his place and a place for everyone..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner..

When I’m rested, I’m at my best..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right time to start it, and it's ofte….

There are no incurable ills..

I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked my kid to educate me about hip ho….

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these k….

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems..

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them..

The superman exists and he's American..

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat..

Nature is not anthropomorphic..

You can't lose sight of what you did to get there.

I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me to the Black Sea, it was like a tourist attracti….

If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards..

You feel like you're an outcast. You're the old man. I promise you, all the kids, none of them have beards. They all just have a little stubble on th….

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid..

Do something about your life now..