I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.
I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing.
