I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

I like vintage a lot.

I don't go to clubs.

I'm responsible.

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I'm not thuggy.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

I don't want to treat my fans like they are stupid.

I write about what I'm going through.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar.

With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'

There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.

My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.

'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.