Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?