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I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.

I was such a punk.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.