Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

I do belong on stage.

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

I'd like to be a piano player.

I'm living my dream now.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

The idea that Hillary Clinton wants to do to Central America what her husband did to Colombia is troubling.

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Some investors may grumble about entrepreneurs wanting 'unicorn valuations.' But let's be honest: most investors want them, too, and are supporting the massive capitalization of these companies.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.

24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.