It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

I've led a very eclectic life.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Marketing is the devil.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.