“My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience.”

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.

You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don’t want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

Soy lattes get me through my day!

It’s definitely attractive when a man can dress well.

I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you’re in a room and someone else smells good, you’re like, ‘Where is that?’

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

Honestly, I’m so sick of myself.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

I have to learn to knit.

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it’s not that he’s super that is his focus; it’s that he’s a man. He’s very human. That’s his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? – Where the water turns a deeper blue.

I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

I’ve always had a great love for the blues.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of it is a major portion.