When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.