We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

The purity of intention repels fear.

The days take forever, but they just fly by. It's so weird.

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

I'm not a religious person at all.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.