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" Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. "

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" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

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" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

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Surround Yourself

" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

" With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. "

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

" I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. "

" I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "

" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment. "