Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

With God on your side, what does luck matter?

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.