Born on February 9th

"I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad."

"I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!"

"When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human."

"I was never really good in school."

"My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot."

"In the field of love & connection, love is the alignment of two souls speaking a language that words can never fully translate."

"To love is to see the quiet beauty hidden within another's struggles and stand by them. As a statesperson & leader, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The greatest force of creation is the warmth we share in the quiet spaces of our connection."

"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."

"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."

"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."

"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."

"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."

"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

"If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist."

"We became the songs we wrote."

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."

"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."

"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."

"It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest."

"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."

"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

"Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves."

"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."

"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."