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"Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult."
"A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook."
"At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?"
"Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know."
"I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles."
"I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible."
"Don't try to write to the trend of the moment."
"I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking."
"I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me."
"I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something."
"Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way."
"The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I'm on Twitter because I'm trying to answer their questions."
"Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively."
"I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him."
"You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place."
"Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician."
"Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious."
"I try not to be hateful."
"I don't want to be mean. I try not to be."
"Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny."
