“I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it’s the most beautiful country in the world.”

Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him… does that mean we’re not democratic?

I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.

When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.

And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.