Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to do television. But then it became this thing where movie actors didn't do television - they certainly didn't do commercials, because that just meant the end of your career.

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

Victoria got very involved with the Obama campaign, and I stepped back out of it. I thought it was good for her to get some glory. It's hard being married to a celebrity.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.