After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain in this state of magical thinking, then they should be called out for it strongly and repeatedly.