I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

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

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

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.