I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

Funny how life messed with you.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.