And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.