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.

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.

I started playing music when I was really young.

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.

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.

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I’ll be what You want me to be. I’ll go where You want me to go.

The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.