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.

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.

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.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.