I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

Writing is a form of mischief.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.