It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.