“I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don’t wait around for success, but who make their own.”

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.

As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else’s hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say “YES.”

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.

Successful people inspire me, and I don’t mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it’s inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.