There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.

I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.