It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.