I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.