When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.