When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.