I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.
I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.
I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.
I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.
One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.
I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
