“I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it’s all good stuff. I’m not complaining.”

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don’t mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

I’m a radio nerd. I’ve loved radio since I was a kid. I’m a huge Howard Stern fan.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

You don’t realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It’s a card you get so you can navigate society.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you’re doing something right.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.