I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

People, places and experiences aren’t meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.