I don’t go to premieres. I don’t go to parties. I don’t covet the Oscar. I don’t want any of that. I don’t go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that’s a whole other career. And I haven’t got any energy for it. less than 1 minute read
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. less than 1 minute read
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. less than 1 minute read
I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous. less than 1 minute read
I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that’s when the mental illness arrives. less than 1 minute read
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. less than 1 minute read
I look up to Mick Jagger because he’s an amazing performer and he’s such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally. less than 1 minute read
I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. less than 1 minute read