I started playing music when I was really young.

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money can't buy.

I get upset when people say Americans are stupid.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

There's no place like home. And there's no toilet like your own.