That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.