"It’s an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone." ― Joaquin Phoenix Topic(s): Amazing More From Joaquin Phoenix "I’ve always loved music, but I never really played anything. After ‘Walk the Line’ and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music." "There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they’re eight years old and they go, ‘Whoa, this is incredible,’ and grow up to do extreme sports. It’s the same for me with acting." "I didn’t know much about him, and I wasn’t a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn’t know a lot about him." More In Amazing "I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."― Lech Walesa "You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing."― Jeremy Renner "Nothing amazes me anymore."― David Beckham