How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

Save the World-ers

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.

The joy of life is variety.