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

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.

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

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.

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.