Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.