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.'

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.

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.

She didn't struggle and soshe didn't grow

You can have what you wish in the sacred time.

Oh, a grenade. But where is the bamboo bazooka?

I find humans tremendously interesting

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.