A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.