I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

There is no right way to be a family.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.