I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

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

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

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

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.