Every Monday morning is new hope.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability... When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

I stay far away from political humor.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.