For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.
I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.