The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.