I never fancied myself having a prejudice towards people with tattoos. I personally don't have any and I don't think that I do, but I do see that people treat me differently with tattoos. People get out of my way.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

I take it as a real compliment that people believe that I can in some ways mine the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the somewhat off-center - psychologically speaking - people in our society, and bring a real humanity to them, and make people see what would otherwise be a person that you would hate. Find a reason to love them and see the world from their point of view.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.