I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that.

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.