Mark Salling

“I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.”

“I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!”

“I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.”

“I play Xbox in my underwear.”

“Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.”

“Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.”

“I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'”

“Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.”

“'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.”

“I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl.”

“I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.”

“I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.”

“Music is my wife, and acting is my girlfriend.”

“I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.”

“Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.”

“Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.”

“I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.”

“You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.”

“I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.”

“I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.”