Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.