I don't feel special. I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.