In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I'm covered with loser dust.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.