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Video gives people a voice.

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.