"First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful."

"You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines."

"For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums."

"I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun."

"As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable."

"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."

"I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me."