As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...