I couldn't throw, run, hit, or hit for power.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

If I took everything as personally as I possibly could, I wouldn't survive.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

So many people struggle to have children and it's not unusual to go down a slightly different path if you need to.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs aren't 'about' anything. Or, at least, they're not about anything that's obvious or logical.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

I collect a lot of beautiful tins from around the world, and I'll put things in them and give them as presents.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.