I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans but no critics darling.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful and successful.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies then yes that's true big-time success. If not it's much ado about nothing.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.