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I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.