I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
I think it's a belief that you can learn something. That's something that I really value from the upbringing I got.
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.
After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.
That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones.
I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well.
When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.
To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.
Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.
What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
