I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.