You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.
LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.
I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.
I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.
[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.
The audience, that's who I care about.
The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.
You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.
I've led a very eclectic life.
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.
I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.
I always wanted to play a lawyer.
When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
You have to really know what you're saying.
I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.
I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.
When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.
People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.
