When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.
What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.
When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'