"In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes."

“I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.”

“I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.”

“I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.”

“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”

Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

“I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”

“All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express.”