Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.