I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.