After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.