The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.