I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.

I was watching Burt Reynolds movies when I was a kid, going, 'That's what I want to do.'

I started my career with a loss, getting 'slapped' by life.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.

I always focus on what is next in my career.