Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the world can existexpect within.

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg