Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.