People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

This is unbearable how I talk.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.