In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

Young people go to concerts.

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I'm always reading something.

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.