“A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.”

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

It’s dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that’s the secret of all the success that’s happened (for me).

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I’m a happy man.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

Be in control. Know who you are. And don’t try to be different just to be different.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.

I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.

Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.

They support the concept of it even though they know it won’t work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure ‘well if criminals aren’t supposed to have guns what’s the big deal about a background check,’

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.

And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.