I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20..

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant….

God, I love John Cassavetes..

David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I t….

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes..

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because ….

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes let….

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd ….

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were da….

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance..

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis..

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself..

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically..

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it w….

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good ….

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs..

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are ….

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech..

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the success….

You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like you've cracked it and it's finished and i….

With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have….