In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

That's stupid, that's bias.. they lied, they don't wanna gift credit for anything

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.