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"I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad."
"In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff."
"If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto."
"Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film."
"If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers."
"[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know.""
"Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas."
"I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good restaurant?" (In a robotic voice.) "I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France." "Why, Siri?" "I don't know." It's like she was upset with the French or something. "They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?""
"I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada."
"You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse."
"They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them"
"Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish."
"Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound."
"There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?""
"A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations."
"I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass."
"With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works."
"There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'."
"Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing."
"Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late."