I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.