Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

I started playing music when I was really young.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.