Kevin Bacon on how his acting skills payoff when writing songs

From my interview with Kevin Bacon:

Does your acting ability help you when you are writing or performing a song?

Kevin: Yeah, I think so. I don’t know if it helps me, but I know that it’s what I use. You know what I mean? If I’m feeling like a song is not working or it’s not coming across, I have to think of it as kind of an acting exercise and get back in touch with what the song was about and what I was thinking about when I wrote it. And that’ll sort of reconnect me to the song and will actually make me sing it better.