Quotes About Spontaneity

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.

I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

Life is short, and you have to have fun with it, you know?

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Just take each race as it comes and have fun.

I feel like when you're 18 or 19, you have to have fun, live in the moment, and not overthink things.

In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down.

I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

You have to have fun in life.

I love to have fun when I do a song.