Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Music fathoms the sky.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Nihilists embrace life's existence by the acceptance of nothingness

We are just good friends. This sentence is enough to destroy at least one person.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

Body and soul need new challenges.

When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.