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

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

I generally play strong people and scary people.

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.