I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

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

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.