I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.