'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he's terrific.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.