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.

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

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

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

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.