“There's something cool about being a stealth classic.”
John Cameron Mitchell“Anger is so constructive.”
John Cameron Mitchell“The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.”
John Cameron Mitchell“Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.”
John Cameron Mitchell“Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.”
John Cameron Mitchell“There's something cool about being a stealth classic.”
John Cameron Mitchell“Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.”
John Cameron Mitchell“I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!”
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch