In high school and college, I was an athlete.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.