I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

A gentleman is not a pot.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.