I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

Our show is about starting over.

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.

All things just keep getting better.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.