The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
I started playing music when I was really young.
I do both music and acting at the same time. To me they are both really important parts of how I express myself and understand myself in the world. I don't ever want to have to choose one over the other in any sort of grand sense of things. Obviously with scheduling you wind up making choices.
Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L. A. , in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.
The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.