"I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life."

“Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!”

“I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.”

Source : "Morning View". Studio album by Incubus, October 23, 2001.

“The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”

“Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.”

“When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem."”

Source : "Dean Winters Is Pretty Stylish for an Insurance Salesman". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2011.

“And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!”

“I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.”