Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.

When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.