I started doing a lot of record dates and lots of commercial stuff. I started to grow tired of the business end of that lifestyle. At that level, everyone can play, so it becomes who tells the best jokes or who's the best-paying.

He said, 'Hey dude, I wrote this script. Would you consider doing it?' I asked him to talk to me next Wednesday and went on the road for the weekend. He hit me up and I told him that the script was great. I hadn't even read it.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

When I was in a record store with Sean Avery helping him look for CDs, I pulled out 'Tapestry.' He was like, who is Carole King ? Can you imagine?

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.