Ethan Hawke

And I can't remember a time I just ran with the character like I did with this one.

I don't remember life without music.

My father's a great pianist.

Well, when I was little, he used to play a lot of Scott Joplin.

And I loved to lay under the piano and listen to him play these rags.

And I don't know why, but music has always been that place I go to.

I don't know.

put on a good record and everything is fine.

Everything's going to be okay.

And I also think that

I love acting.

Acting is my job.

And to understand acting, I've gotten into directing.

And to understand acting, I've gotten into writing.

But music's one thing I can't really do.

I mean, I try, but I'm not good at it at all.

But I love it.

And my inability to do it well has only increased my fandom, my geekdom, my absolute hero worship of the people who can do it well.

And I think I really love being a fan.

Well, it was coming up on the last presidential election, and I had this realization that no matter who won, half the country was going to be absolutely despondent.