so we got her and robert duvall and dwight yocum, people i am close to. tavis: for something you did not want to do, did you find it at all cathartic or therapeutic? >> i did. it was nice. and also, there were a couple of chapters where i talk about the social network and how it is kind of dehumanizing us. tavis: i will get to that, i promise you. i am fascinated by that. i would like to your thoughts about the decay of our civilization and the evolution of our culture. we will talk about that in a second. let's start at the beginning. i am always fascinated by people's parents. there is so much to learn about our starts. we are who we are because somebody loved us, and the older i get, i'd add to that, or did not. somebody either loved us or did not love us, and that is why we fascinating relationship with both your mother and your father. let's start with your mother first. your mother was a psychic, a pretty well known. she started out, trying to figure this stuff out, but you were teased about your mother and this gift that she had. >> when you grow u

i asked robert duval and angie and dwight yocum -- >> you've got interesting friends. >> yeah.ople who have known me for a long time intimately to just say a few words. she was one of them. it was actually the book company's idea to have that be the foreword. >> that's a good idea. that's a really good idea. >> to quote gayle, she said some people walk through life able to quiet the vois in their head. he can't. i and everyone else who knows him well, we love him for it. i know one thing, the world would have a lot more dull if that man wasn't in it. if you could dial it back to "slingblade" and where you were then, which we were all marveling at acting, directing, all that you could do, would you do it differently since then? or do you just have to live it? >> yeah, you know, my great grandmother used to say, honey, you have to leave everything up to providence, you know. and i think -- i don't have many regrets, frankly. i think i did it the way i would have done it. i had no idea it was going to turn out the way it has. i mean, when i did "slingblade" i thought maybe a few p