To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.