I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

Nature is the my best teacher.

I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.