“The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of...” — Todd Solondz Quote

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

There are so many different ways to make your family. I'm just super-grateful to have my children.

I'm a manager's player, in a way, because he can use me in a lot of different ways, and I'm willing to do that.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.

I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.