I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.