If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'