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

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 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.

Thanks to you my toughest life lessons.. it may appear that I'm falling, ... but, I' m stronger than I have ever been

there is no such thing as shut doors, just ones that have yet to be opened!

Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.