By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

I never just dreamed of success, I worked for it. Dreaming is good, but working is what gets you results.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

I have a gigantic head, sometimes it throws me off balance.