I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.
I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.