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 never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.