I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character in the play, and there's a director and other actors. When you're a musician, you're right there. It's sort of like being a comedian. You're giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was really the context of it that made the experience so worthwhile, rather than the actual subject matter, if that makes sense.