My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.