What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.