Michael McKean Quotations

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

As far as directing, yeah, I'd like to do that. But you've got to spend at least a year, year-and-a-half doing that. It's got to be something you really love. To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. To do a teen comedy, I don't think is really something I'd want to spend a year of my life doing at this point.