It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours and cannot be.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging but to do anything well you have to put yourself into it.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it but you have to respect yourself in doing it.