I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

You cant control the curve balls life throws you so you have to learn how to control yourself and change quickly to make sure the curve ball doesnt knock you out.

Each of my records has a different focus a different theme.

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more than you promised. Overdeliver now, and in the future, you will be overpaid.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

Our athletes are our heroes.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.