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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history

I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger, ' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.