We'd like to give a big thanks to Ryann Baker as well as Jackson himself for allowing us this amazing privilege. Once again, Jackson and his management have put time aside especially for us to make this happen and we couldn't be more appreciative! This time around, we asked the fantastic members at DailyRathbone for their questions. Enjoy and many thanks,

Brittany, Natatree, Viv & Janine

I was born with a passion to entertain. I think I was always fairly talented at amusing people, but I was never a prodigy. I fall hard when I fall in love, and I fell in love with playing music and acting. It's all I ever wanted to do, but in the beginning, I just had the soul, no prodigy-type talent. The technical aspects I'm still developing and honing... I'm always in training, always practicing. It's about pursuing passion, I believe. I feel at home with my friends and family. So, wherever they are is home. Whether it's a different hotel every night with the band on tour, I'm still staying with my brothers. When I go home to Texas, or visit my family anywhere in the world, I'm at home. My dad's baby back ribs. I get it my first night back home every time I visit. Can't get the best cooking anywhere but home. Mom's Jambilaya? Killer. I do, but they're mostly pretty personal items. Lucky charms would be my boots. My mom got me my first pair of real, not-from-Salvation-Army cowboy boots five years ago.They make me feel pretty lucky. I still wear them nearly every day. Had to get them resoled twice. I have a few scars, all right. One by each eye, my chin, and my legs. One scar on my right knee is from an old Mexican sword my buddy had in the back of his pick-up truck... The other scar is from when I ran into a barbed-wire fence at night when sneaking out of my sumer camp cabin to get to the girls' side. I went the wrong way and didn't see the fence. Wrapped it with a bandana as a tourniquet. Raising awareness for the music and art of Spencer Bell is very important to me. Hearing people sing his songs, make music videos of his work, and are inspired by it, is simply beautiful. As Keith Richards says, every artist wants "He Passed It On" written on their gravestone. I know I've been inspired by Spencer and would love to inspire others to follow their own passions, or at least find one. There are moments that will always stay with me. The times I've messed up and had to learn the hard-way are the most vital, I find. The good things that have come into my life serve as milestones to my artistic pursuits. The present is another word for a gift, and I'm just thankful to receive one, no matter where I may be waking up, I'm waking up on top of the grass and not below it. Literally, everywhere. I honestly can't think I could ever get enough traveling done in my lifetime, but I'm gonna try. There's too much beauty in the world, but it doesn't overwhelm me, it only entices me onward. That's amazing! Thank you! I don't know how to fully express it, but you have all of my respect and my love. It is because of fan's devotion and support, that I get to do what I love to do, and I can only thank you the best way I know how, to continually create art as diverse as possible and to hopefully grow together, as audience and artist, with the times. Thank you, so much! I always look for the weird acoustic instruments. Slide resonator guitars, or ukuleles, dulcimers, banjos... whatever looks like it has a song begging to be played. Whenever I'm stuck in rush-hour traffic in LA, I often will just pull off at the closest guitar store and spend an hour or two sampling everything I can to kill time. Music stores hold a sense of reverence with me. I started on an acoustic guitar, so I guess that would be my suggestion. It's important to learn the fundamentals of the rhythm guitar, but then again I come from the Keith Richards school of guitar. It depends who, what musician, you are into. See what they play and emulate that. I now play mainly classical for writing and fun, and then perform with a Gibson Les Paul. There is a definite satisfaction with listening to a lot of my own older music. My first recordings when I was eighteen and experimenting with different sounds and styles, they often get me smiling and reminiscing, but listening to your own music is like the guiltiest pleasure of all. I try not to often, but every so often you have to look through your old family photo album, right? See how you've grown and where you've been... Otherwise, "Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip", son is called "Thou Shalt Always Kill". Ha! No... but very, very astute question. I named her Annabelle because of her resonant, bell-like sound quality. Naming guitars just happens. It will maybe tell you when you first play it, or it's inspired by familiarity. Either way, it's pure fancy. The violin. Hands down. I play a little, but I mostly make dying-cat-sounds when I play the violin, so I need a lot of practice. Or, the cello... If it was my last night on Earth, I would be playing music. I'd go out playing. I can't tell that much more, but it's a beautifully moving story. We still have to cast the female lead, until then we can't really move forward with the financing or anything else. We have to find that special leading lady. I think each would be interesting... for different merits. I hope to have a long enough career to do a little of each. Often time art is supposed to serve as a catalyst for active mass subjectivity. I believe in equal-rights for everyone, and I also believe that everyone is an artist. It was amazing to work with such an incredibly talented young actor like Evan Schneider. My main hope is that the world will get to see his talent and this film will be only the first in what I see as a long career from a talented artist who loves to act. I have heard whisperings... Maybe if the fans bombarded Criminal Minds with letters requesting... I don't know... I'm down for it. Snippy from Senior Skip Day Adam/Amanda from Criminal Minds Jasper from the Twilight Series (on stage... Autolycus from The Winter's Tale) The romantic leading man in a studio romantic comedy. I would love to do comedy and I consider myself a romantic, but I'd rather be the interesting auxiliary character who informs the story. I just like addressing broader concepts than falling in and out of love and/or lust in a film capacity. It's enough in real life. On screen I'd rather play men with a mission or a psychopath or anything as far from me as possible.

Thank ya'll for the interview, and especially for the love and support.
Love and respect,
Jackson

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