You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it’s maybe not your day. It’s the other guy’s day.
If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
Bernard Manning is controversial but he had incredible timing. I wrote the character of Brian Potter in ‘Phoenix Nights’ for him to play but unfortunately he was too poorly to do it. I thought it would have been perfect casting but it didn’t happen.
Of course, I’d like to earn Jonathan Ross’s money, but I don’t have sleepless nights wondering when someone’s going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.
Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.
We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights – that would have changed things so much that it’s almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.
I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people’s shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams… That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.
I’m not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I’m very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I’m not that private, so it’s not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
Some nights, I try to play-make and some nights it’s my time to be aggressive.
I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.
I just went and saw ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ Julianne Moore – I’ve been in love with her since ‘Boogie Nights.’ But also, ‘The Big Lebowski.’
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it’s about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
