If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

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

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

[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.

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

I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.