I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.