It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I’ve ever heard. She is amazing.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That’s the problem.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I...

I’ve been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I’m remixing an R.E.M. track called ‘I’ve Been High’ from their last album, ‘Reveal.’ It’s a beautiful song, but record execs didn’t put it out as a single because it didn’t sound like the R.E.M....

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I’m just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear....

I’ve built an 8-track studio in my house that’s virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record ‘Houses of the Holy.’...

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common – timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don’t get to write...

It’s cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to – at least once...

I also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

I did the movies because I love to act.

Material Girls was so different for me, I’d never done a teen movie.

I’d always hoped to work with Tim Burton.

On a low-budget film, you don’t have all the luxuries.

It’s scary to work with first time directors, but he had a definitive idea of what he wanted to accomplish, he didn’t seem like a first time director.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way,...

I’ve had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I’ve talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who’ve written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing....