I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.