And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.