It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it. - Elvis Costello

You start out imitating your heroes, and the way you fuck up becomes your style.

My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.

The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.