I grew up in Plano, Texas.

I am such a goody-two-shoes.

Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

My morals are important to me.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.