I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Anxiety does not make a future situation turn out better if anything it stops you from reaching your highest potential. Relax and live in the present, not the future.

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.

I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers