Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.