I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.