When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.