I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the confederacy.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.