I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.