When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.

I rarely had the opportunity to work as a full time model or to pursue a professional career in modelling, because school was always my priority.

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

Winning Le Mans didn't change my career, but it definitely gave me a boost.

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.