It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

I don't need to be liked.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Politics is not really my thing.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

I don't throw things or yell.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

I've never been a bad boy.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.