Whenever I see Jared Leto with a blue mohawk, wearing a skirt and goth makeup, I can’t help but think: this guy is my age. I grew out of my blue hair days years ago. Part of me is a little envious that Jared can be Peter Pan; the other part thinks, “Dude, get a job.” The royalties for My So-Called Life can’t be that great.

He is still gorgeous, though.

And according to Details magazine, he’s a bona fide rock star. He is the lead singer for the band 30 Seconds to Mars.

Q: In concert you wear eyeliner, crazy hairstyles, elaborate outfits. Do you regard it as another acting gig?

A: No, no, no. As a musician, it’s about revealing more of who you really are. I’m not handed a script with dialogue; there’s no cinematographer or editor. I’m not so interested in creating a persona. There have been shows where I’ve been very plain and shows where I’ve worn a dress. I’ve got a skirt on right now. I was in Japan and all the busboys were wearing them.

Q: You’ve gone out in public in drag.

A: I walked down Madison Avenue in a spaghetti-strap tank top and black-fringe wig, and I thought that I would pass with flying colors, but I didn’t. My shoulders were too big. My jaw was too big. I was just trying to disappear. It wasn’t like I was getting in touch with my inner transvestite, which I’m sure is inside of us all somewhere.

Q: You turn 39 this month. Any plans to settle down?

A: I don’t really believe in settling down. That term implies that the current path I’m on isn’t valid. It’s not always about living your life the way people have lived before you.

Q: You and Kanye West recorded a song together called “Hurricane,” which is in part about persecution. Did you bond over all your haters?

A: I see Kanye as a fellow artist. I think there’s a connection there, but I don’t think it’s about feeling persecuted. It doesn’t matter if you’re President Barack Obama or Bono or the Pope — there’s someone out there who wants to f*ck you and someone who wants to kill you.

[Details, print edition, December 2010]

Jared recently pulled a Kanye-style tantrum when he thought MTV was banning the video for “Hurricane.” Silly boy, don’t you know MTV doesn’t play videos anymore?

30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto has lashed out at MTV and then later relented over the “banning” the bands latest video “Hurricane”…

“Hurricane” is a 13-minute mini-movie.

MTV decided to ban the video just hours before the network had promoted its premiere because of “indecent material”.

Jared Leto initially let loose on his blog about the reasons why MTV had made its decision, one being that at “09:17 – Woman’s finger running over other woman’s bottom in G-string and touching anus”.

He later withdrew his criticism of MTV stating that “there are some edits that need to be made, there is some footage that remained in the cut that was, I guess, overlooked”.

MTV released a statement to say they had not banned the video.

[Undercover News]

Jared apparently doesn’t have the same fond memories of My So-Called Life that I have.

Q: As Jordan Catalano on My So-Called Life, you became an iconic nineties crush for sensitive, smart alterna-girls. Was there a downside?

A: I didn’t notice that stuff. I was just grateful to have the work. It was a very short period of time in my life. It was 17 episodes, and I barely spoke.

Q: After that you took darker roles, from a heroin addict in Requiem for a Dream to Lennon’s murderer, Mark David Chapman, in Chapter 27. Did you feel the need to ugly yourself up to be taken seriously?

A: I didn’t want to take on really corny movies that focused on people’s looks, if that’s what you mean. My heroes were Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis. Those are the actors I thought, “Wow, those guys are pushing themselves as far as they can go.”

[Details]

At least Jared is keeping true to himself, whether you like his music or not. Whenever I see Claire Danes advertising the eyelash growth medication Latisse, a small part of me dies inside.

Details doesn’t ask the question I’m curious about: Will Jared return to acting? According to IMDB, he has nothing new on his acting plate, but a film he did called Mr. Nobody recently won an award at the European Film Awards.

The other question is what starlet is he currently with? The man has dated Cameron Diaz, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johannson and probably Paris Hilton, after all. I doubt he’s with a civilian.

Whether those questions get answered or not, this post is really just one big excuse for CB to post a bunch of pics of the still pretty Jared Leto.

Photo note by Kaiser: Header courtesy of Jared’s Twitter. Additional pics courtesy of WENN.