I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice