I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

Budget affects everything.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The courage to try again is daring spirit.

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.