I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.
I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.
