The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.