I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

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.

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.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.