Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.
We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and He loves us back.
When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.
I'm in music, period, but being in country music is what I love. It's who I am. Being able to be a gay man in country music and continue to break down walls and change hearts and minds has been really important to me.
Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.
When anyone calls you out for something you have done in your life and you're just on a journey to be authentic, to live in your own skin better, man, it makes you feel extremely special. I think that any time you're making huge steps in your life - I always say I need lots of hugs to feel special.
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
The great thing about the movies. . . is-you're giving people little. . . tiny pieces of time. . . that they never forget.
Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself. . . all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.