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" When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances. "

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Surround Yourself

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. "

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" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. "

" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

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" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

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" My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. "

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "