Quotes:

All I wanted when I came on the show was a good body count and a good death. That's all."

"I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from." - on his British accent in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"It's just me and a guitar, so I'm not going to be doing a lot of Smashing Pumpkins. I do Tom Waits, Neil Young, Bob Dylan. That's all the good stuff, man. That's when they had good songs written for just voice and guitar. I wish I could do Johnny Lee Hooker, but I'm not that good." - on his acoustic performance at 14 Below, Santa Monica on 29th August 2000.

"Chekov man, it's all the same thing. Chekov and Buffy the vampire slayer - it's all about beautiful losers."

"I've done plays before to find myself that terrified. I've always come out, I feel, flying more than splatting. Well, no," he admits with a wry smile, "a couple of times we splatted."

"I danced a jig when they invited me back. I love doing Buffy and Angel. You get to hit people, man. On Angel, the creators are the same guys [Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] as on Buffy. David Boreanaz, of course, was there too. I was nervous the first day that I shot Angel because I had only played Spike on Buffy ["Lover's Walk"] once in about two years. In fact, I had to review tapes to find the character again. But once I got on the set, I was in full vamp makeup, fighting David again. So it really felt like old times."

"It's strange. I used to think that the two main things with Spike were kick ass and kiss Dru, and I'm not kissing Dru anymore. At least I'm still kicking ass. I'm not very nice to Harmony. I've had my heart broken and I'm very bitter, so, I abuse Harmony. Mercedes is wonderful. She's a very good actor. Let's just say this--we push the boundaries of the 8 p.m. time slot as far as censorship is concerned."

"But Buffy, at the end of the day, is about a young woman who is trying to grow up and find herself, and who has a job that gets in the way of doing that. She's just trying to hold on to her friends and family and discover who she is. That's very interesting. Violence, when it is portrayed without repercussions, is irresponsible. But I don't think that's the case with Buffy. The show deals with the repercussions and the violence around Buffy at all times. So, in that way, Buffy is a very responsible show."

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