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'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.