And I just try to explain to people that even if it was 300 years ago I still would have been an actor or a performer. It's just what I do. But for the life of him, Russell Crowe can't see a conflict of interest. Given that somebody is creative, it's totally understandable to me that that person is creative in multiple mediums. Acting is such an introspective job.
Music is about absolute immediacy of emotion.
There isn't any artifice in it for me. It's still got to come out. He got really serious about it and he said, 'If I felt I could make a contribution to the artform, then I would act'. You are the artform. Ironically, that's where Russell Crowe and the supermarket tabloids agree.