It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

I want to find things that challenge me.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

To be silent is to be passive.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.