The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He`s just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
No, there will come a time where I`m not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I`ll turn into Elvis - I`m gonna be fat and fishin`, I guarantee you.
It`s innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There`s not a lot of those anymore. I`m not saying I`m right or wrong. That`s just the way I feel.
I`ve been around the music business for a long time now, and I`ve had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn`t really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.