Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate enough to be able to throw some chords together and write songs, but I can only feel that because I'm expressing something honestly, or in a heartfelt way, or in some way that's not bullshit, that in some way the songs have merit.

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

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.