Laughter can bring a new perspective.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

My parents didn't really know one another.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

We don't analyze our lyrics.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.