I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.