I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

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

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.