I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.