The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.

We make art to feel life. We do science to understand it.

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.