We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.

I watched 'Freaks and Geeks,' and I was like, 'Oh, if you write about your own personal experiences, and if you're specific about it both in what happened and how you felt about it, it can make for scenes that are really compelling.' For the rest of college, I was basically ripping off 'Freaks and Geeks' with plays I wrote and stuff like that.

My own child doesn't even know that Stephanie is my name.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Cracking down on illegal immigration was a key priority when I ran in 2002, 2006, and during my time as governor. Illegal immigration is a big problem, and it needs to be strongly addressed.

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

I'm a songwriter and producer, so I'm always wanting to make my own stuff, and not use anybody else's.

If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

I live in Chicago but own some property up in Wisconsin.

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Everyone hits bottom their own way.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

You can't stop the top players but you can slow them down. I think it's a team thing.

I'm down with Jim Jones.

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.