I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired? I came out - "Rob Lowe!" - and the place was, like, bedlam. And then the next week, they wouldn't let anyone under the age of 20 into the audience. And I'm going, "So that's how it works! Okay!"

It was sort of the first movie [The Specials ] where I really got to let my comedy freak flag fly. And everybody in it made me laugh really hard. I wish more people had seen it.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.