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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.