"I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music."

"My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason."

"I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year."

"I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it."

"Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

"When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation."