I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you look at it, it always feels different. It's sort of the same with songs.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.