I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

Do what you're passionate about.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.