My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

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.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.