00:00 That's really what we're looking for is the joy of life,
00:03 which is our gift, actually,
00:06 that's the relationship with God that we all have.
00:10 It's at the bottom of it is the joy of being alive.
00:13 But we lose that in life really easily as kids
00:20 and it starts draining away
00:22 and we let the world take it here and there.
00:28 I am signing copies of my new record, "Fallen,"
00:33 a gospel record for sinners.
00:36 I grew up at the Baptist church
00:37 and I love all the hymns that come from there
00:40 that I remember from being a kid.
00:43 And then I've written some songs
00:47 that are very much in the faith category, I think.
00:50 And I guess what really spurred it was "On My Way to Heaven,"
00:55 ♪ On my way to heaven ♪
00:58 which I wrote for my mom
01:00 when I got out of what I call cocaine school back in 1990
01:05 to let her know I was okay
01:06 'cause I wasn't okay before then.
01:09 And we all, addiction and all that,
01:12 we use things to fill a hole inside us, it's what we do.
01:17 I don't have any regrets about life or anything,
01:21 but I'm really glad I'm not in that life anymore.
01:25 I mean, I stopped because I came home and I was in a band.
01:29 We got a record deal and they broke up because of me
01:32 because I was not reliable and I was, you know,
01:37 I don't know.
01:39 But I remember going home
01:41 and having kind of a white light experience
01:43 that I saw myself either dead or in jail
01:46 or losing everything I had.
01:48 And, you know, I didn't want that.
01:52 When you're done with the addiction,
01:54 you need something to fill that hole.
01:55 Something that really works, right?
01:56 And I started reading the Bible again,
01:59 but I also, I read the Bhagavad Gita,
02:01 I read the Dhammapada, I read the Quran.
02:05 And I went back and I read the Bible again,
02:09 it was just like for the second or third time.
02:13 And I was really struck by the red words of Jesus.
02:16 For me, I started developing a personal relationship
02:19 and, you know, the songs started to come out.
02:21 You know, there's self-reflective,
02:24 self, you know, examining yourself
02:28 and also, you know, just where you are spiritually in life.
02:32 And, you know, they're not churchy.
02:37 That's the thing I think I'm trying to get to.
02:40 All of us have a relationship with God,
02:42 whether we're, you know,
02:45 whether you're a Christian or not or whatever,
02:47 we all have a relationship with Him.
02:51 It may not be good,
02:53 (laughs)
02:53 or it may, you know,
02:55 but there, and you may not even believe,
02:57 but you're still in relationship to that side of yourself.
03:02 I was always interested in like human behavior
03:07 and, you know, why we do what we do.
03:09 And, you know, so I was caught up and fascinated by it.
03:13 And then music and movies have got,
03:15 have been interwoven throughout my career.
03:18 I don't know if it's, I realized I could make it as an actor.
03:21 I just decided that's what I was gonna do.
03:24 I was gonna go out there and, you know,
03:26 it was, you know, a couple of people,
03:29 I didn't finish college, you know,
03:31 and people would say,
03:33 "Well, what are you gonna fall back on?"
03:35 And I would fall back to what was my attitude about it?
03:39 Because I just was determined that's what I was gonna do.
03:44 Like I say to my kids,
03:45 find something that you love to do
03:47 and figure out a way to get paid for it.
03:49 And you will have a third of your life kind of solved.
03:54 I kind of really always saw myself
03:57 as more of a character actor, doing different things,
04:01 different types of roles, different types of people.
04:04 You know, that really interests me.
04:08 Anything that gives me like a fear down my spine,
04:12 that's the thing I should do.
04:16 'Cause that'll keep me focused and interested.
04:19 Top three of my favorites?
04:22 Well, "The Right Stuff" was my favorite movie.
04:24 Who was the best pilot I ever saw?
04:26 - Yeah! - Yeah!
04:27 - Well, you're looking at him.
04:29 - Played an astronaut.
04:31 I got my pilot's license from that.
04:33 Chuck Yeager was on the set every day.
04:35 You know, my boyhood hero I was playing,
04:38 basically, Gordo Cooper.
04:41 - These college kids out here,
04:42 they're never gonna get old.
04:43 They're out of shape.
04:45 'Cause new ones come along every year.
04:47 They're gonna keep calling us cutters.
04:53 - Breaking away was Peter Yates.
04:57 And he really taught, there were four boys in there,
05:01 you know, me and Danny Stern, and Cyril and Dennis.
05:05 And he taught us how to film act, really.
05:08 And it was such a, it's such a incredible, charming movie.
05:14 And it was like the first youth movie of the,
05:18 you know, what was the '80s, you know,
05:23 before the Brad Pack came along.
05:25 It was, it gave me a career.
05:28 After that, I didn't have to audition so much.
05:31 The third one is usually the one I just finished.
05:33 I really enjoy it a lot more than I used to.
05:36 I just do it 'cause I want to.
05:38 I'm not trying to get anywhere, really.
05:41 You know, win any awards or, you know,
05:46 acknowledgement, I just love doing it.
05:49 And that's why I'm still here.
05:50 I love being a dad, I really do.
05:55 Yeah, I really do.
05:57 I think I'm a good dad.
05:58 It turned out, so far, so good.
06:01 Jack really turned out well, I'm really proud of him.
06:04 And Thomas and Zoe, too, they're just really great kids.
06:08 I love watching them grow up and watching them change.
06:11 I kind of feel like a dorky dad a lot,
06:13 because, especially my daughter,
06:16 makes me kind of feel that way.
06:18 Very uncomfortable, awkward.
06:21 Awkward, teenagers are so awkward.
06:25 Laura's the love of my life.
06:29 We have a bond with one another
06:31 that I never had with anybody else before.
06:36 Yeah, God is in the relationship, for one thing,
06:39 which I've never had a relationship like that before.
06:43 And she's super smart and she's very deep.
06:47 I mean, we just have fun together, we do.
06:49 I just like there's an age difference with us,
06:51 but we just never noticed it right from the very beginning.
06:54 And happiest I've ever been.
06:58 I'm grateful to still be here.
07:00 I'm grateful to be alive, really, every day.
07:03 You know, I think it's important to really enjoy your ride.
07:08 It is, you ride along in life as much as you can,
07:11 because there's a lot of challenges
07:13 and stuff to knock it down.
07:15 Plenty of time to feel bad about stuff,
07:16 so you really gotta make sure you're enjoying it.
07:19 (upbeat music)
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