I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

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.

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.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

[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.