My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

You haven't got a letter on yours, " George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

You know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop circles in your pubes.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.