One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

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.

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.

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.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.

You don't have to wait until something or someone is gone to appreciate the true value

Kill me, then! You will not win, you cannot win! The wand will never, ever be yours-

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.