It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.