How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out there and there's a lot of stuff going on. People don't care that they're going to go to prison. They couldn't give a rat about the repercussions. They go out and they do what they do and they don't care about hurting anyone else.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.