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Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.