No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

You see new shows coming out with the same format, slightly high end, a little bit more glossy. You think, "S - . It's just the same s - but different day."

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.