“People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.”

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I’ve reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

Naturally animals are very special to me, especially dogs.

I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.

Vulnerability isn’t a bad thing. Everyone’s vulnerable and it only makes you human.

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.

I guess at it’s very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things.

Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

I can’t stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

You can’t truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can’t love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you – otherwise it’s just infatuation and desire.

Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what’s going on.

If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.

I don’t think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

You got to get it while you can.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire