If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.