I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
You called the guy you’re supposed to rescue a nerd, and you just referenced Star Trek. You don’t find that a bit nerdy?
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'
When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.
Things haven't changed since I was a young kid. I just wanted to be the fastest guy I could be, and I am still chasing that dream to this day.
I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.
