"My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album,..." — John Cameron Mitchell

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.

I never even had a MySpace.

I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.