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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.