[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, o….

I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other wo….

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you mo….

There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excu….

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't….

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now..

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren'….

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I ….

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing..

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time..

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them..

If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the ….

At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad..

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family..

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, J….

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places..

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book..

On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarette….

There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie..

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth ….

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears..