Music Facts & Quotes

I get those checks from BMI for $2.40 for 300 playings of "The Man Who Ran Away With the Moon". It doesn't make me rich but it's a ton of fun.
Boston Herald 5/7/94

Dwight went, `I love that song man. I love it.' Long story short, he cut it, it became the single, they did a video, it went Number 1. Now the guy that I produce has a deal in Nashville. There's not an actor around who doesn't wish he was a musician.
Toronto Star 2/13/04

I'm ALWAYS writing music... More for therapy than commerce though.
Prodigy 5/10/96

I'm a total hack. I play loud and I play often.
Portland Oregonian 8/15/95

If I'm having the door go bang, bang, bang in my face every time I do an audition I can just come home here and turn it up and play something angry and blame my life on other people.
Entertainment Tonight 3/30/96

Never! I do it for fun. I sing at charities. I get turned down enough as an actor. I don't need to be ridiculed as a musician, as well.
Toronto Sun 1/9/05

If the rock star in me would talk a little louder I might be inclined to say yes. But that's just empty wishes.
Playgirl 6/96

You've got to be really careful with that. I don't take people that seriously who crank out a record because they've got a name. I've worked at it. I'm fairly decent. I'm not in any hurry to throw stuff out there and have people go "Aw, no, he's just another guy milking that celebrity cow."
Chattanooga News-Free Press 5/10/87

There's no hurry for [my vocal record] to come out at all. I have been focusing on acting and just using music as a creative outlet, as a hobby.
Vancouver Sun TV Times 5/1/87

If you look closely, you'll see I play [piano] as if I were from the Mike Tyson School of Piano.
San Jose Mercury News 4/26/90

I told Susan I'd walk off the show [refusing to play the guitar on a talk show].... No! Tom Veil is not a guitar player. I play guitar at home....drive my wife nuts! I don't need to drive you nuts....
AT: America After Hours 1/3/96

I'm still playing a lot just to keep my sanity, sort of between scenes, that kind of thing, and at home on the weekends. But I don't think we're going to turn Tom Veil into Woody Guthrie any time soon.
UPN Press Tour 6/95

I just had to put a music studio in my home. I decided five or six years ago, that I don't have any big vices, so why not buy recording gear every time I got a job.
Toronto Star 12/9/94

They are children's songs actually and they are avilable through an artist named Norman Foote through childrens Disney series and I've had some used in films. In fact in Dumb and Dumber there's a song called "Two Foot of Butt Crack" that plays in the background of the diner when Carrey throws the salt over his shoulder... if you listen that's me singing it. That kind of silly stuff. But it didn't make it on the soundtrack.
Prodigy Chat 5/10/96

[I] toured B.C. with three other guys in an Econoline, playing beer bars, dodging chairs thrown our way toward the later part of the performance.
Canadian TV Guide 5/21/88

I'd been a kind of wishful thinking musician for a long time and about 6 or 7 years ago I started getting into it actively.
The Wil Shriner Show 5/22/88

Recently I started to lock into my guitar a little more after takes. I'm hoping that it will help me meditate. I don't really know how to meditate, so that's my version of it.
Playgirl 6/96

A friend is coming over to play piano and I'm kind of a guitar player and we will just while the night away playing music, drinking coffee and hanging out. My idea of a close to perfect evening.
Prodigy Chat 5/10/96

I own several [guitars]: a Gibson ES 335, a Mexican Strat with a rosewood fret board, a Yamaha semi-acoustic and an old Yamaha beach guitar...
Prodigy Chat 5/10/96

Yes, I do have a musical thing coming up. I was just talking to Atom Egoyan today, the director of Exotica, and in his next film, we're talking about me playing guitar and singing a little. I'm getting kind of excited about that....And I'm still recording at home, of course.
CompuServe Conference 6/20/96

Question: Will you be putting out an album of your music?
Answer: Someday, someway, maybe it'll happen. I'm not pushing it, I'm just getting better at it. That's my goal.
CompuServe Conference 6/20/96

I listen mostly to blues and hack away at blues and R&B in general.
CompuServe Conference 6/20/96

As long as I have a job or a guitar, I'm happy.
Touchstone Publicity Release 1995

If I could wake up in the morning and play and sing like Gary Moore, I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven.
Smoke 2/96