I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much, let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

I want all my pain to count for something.

[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.