My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

I don't think too much about awards.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.