Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.
Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.
There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'
It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
I've got my own TV stuff on the go, and it's all a bit oddball - it's one-offs, and I can do what, when, and how I want it, really. I don't have any scripts or people telling me to do stuff twice.
It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.
I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
