I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.

And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

My roots are in my record player.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.