When I get mean, I get mean.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

When I get mean, I get mean.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

In auditions, you're not up against anyone else; you're both going in for the role, and it's like, whoever's right for it will get it. It's simple. It's not like, 'Oh I won!' There's never that element. It is very supportive.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well.

During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

When the chess game is over the pawn and the king go back to the same box.

Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.