I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.

Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself.

I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams…no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams

There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.