I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.
I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
When Bob Dylan was a beginning fellow, Len Chandler, a black singer-musician who played a 12-string guitar, was a friend of his.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
