“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.”

“I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't. ”

“My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.”

“Violence of any kind, once it starts, is like fucking a gorilla-you ain't done tillthe gorilla's done.”

“I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it ”

“You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.”

“I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.”