I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.