The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
People have different ways of interpreting history.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.
For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.
Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.
To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.
If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.
I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.
Touring is just the most incredible experience, and whilst I try to share it, there are moments where you feel the only way you can really know is to be there in the moment feelings what you are feeling.
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.
I'm sick of running away from things.
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.
