“I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.”

“I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.”

“Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.”

“You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.”

“At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.”

“Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.”

“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.”

“Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.”

“The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.”