I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.