"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"

"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."

"Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."

"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."

"There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit."

"It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories."

"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."

"On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary."