"I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one."

“I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.”

Source : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

“Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.”

“Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.”

“You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.”

“You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.”

“A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.”

“The more I know, the less I sleep.”

Source : "Fictional character: Alexandra Eames". Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Pilgrim, TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2002.