Because I look up to Kurt and River Phoenix, I've been forewarned, and a lot of the decisions I've made in my career are to counteract my fame.

[Last Days is, loosely, about Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the rock group Nirvana.] I had a house in the middle of the woods, ... I stayed alone the whole time, and I tried always to be battling with the things I thought the character was battling with - seclusion, drug addiction, severe chronic depression and suicidal tendencies.

Forewarned, forearmed.

Courtney and I involve Frances in Nirvana/Kurt decisions whenever we can. She's very perceptive and has cool ideas.

Kurt Angle made Randy Orton pay tonight.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.