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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

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One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

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Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

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I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
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The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

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Most screen violence is tedious.

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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.
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I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

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I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

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Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

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I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

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don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

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I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

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I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

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I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. Neil Patrick Harris

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