My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

I supply the music for Vampires which is a new series that's coming out.

Music's not like becoming a doctor who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter different kinds of movies.

Here's the thing about movies all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not I don't care how much money you spend on it or how big or broad the film is or who the actors are in it eventually it's all coming out of the box.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

When I meet gay fans out and about they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come too!

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

There's nothing like coming home here having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00 9:00 that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

Over the last four years I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there thinking - it's a great way to start the morning you know? You feel so good coming out and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

As far as I'm concerned the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody I don't get to go to their ballgame I don't get to marry everybody but the pros are you get all this community 800 ushers come in to serve getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point and coming out ahead.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says listen if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in I'll veto it. I mean I'm going to try to work with you the best I can but I'm going to veto it.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom and coming to the States was really academic.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.