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.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

[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.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.