“Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage....” — Jakob Dylan Quote

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.

When I did 'The Green' with Cheyenne Jackson, I was the lead of a film for the first time. That was really fun; I hadn't dug in to a part like that before.

The plays that survive the most easily are the ones in which Shakespeare has dug deep into the psychology of people in extreme situations.

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.