"When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period."

"I like to feel that I understand little things about sports."

"The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct."

"Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently."

"But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it."

"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."

"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."

"Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever."