In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.