It's An Honor Putting Art Above Politics.

The Country Is So Wounded, Bleeding, And Hurt Right Now. The Country Needs To Be Healed-it's Not Going To Be Healed From The Top, Politically. How Are We Going To Heal? Art Is The Healing Force.

It's An Honor Putting Art Above Politics. Politics Can Be Seductive In Terms Of Things Reductive To The Soul.

Hollywood Was Not A Place I Dreamed Of Getting To. I Never Could Take Seriously The Obsession People Have About Being A Celebrity Or Getting To Hollywood - I Was Born Next Door.

Essentially, My Kids Grew Up With The Emphasis On The Environment Because I Became A Political Activist In About 1969 And It Was Not An Easy Time. Those Were The Days When The Oil And Gas Companies Pretty Much Controlled The Show And Anybody Speaking About Solar Energy Or Carbon Energy Would Get Smashed Down As Being A Radical Or A Tree-hugger Or What Have You. So I Was Out There Feeling Very Often Alone And My Kids Would Get That.

I Started As An Actor In The Theater Playing A Lot Of Character Parts, And Suddenly, I Found Myself In This Place Where It Felt Like I Was Getting Locked Into A Kind Of A Stereotype, And It Did Bother Me.