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.

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.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

Finally the spring time is here.

hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.

You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.