I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

If anyone ever saw me dance, they'd have trouble taking me seriously.

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.