I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.