Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

You don't build a bond without being present.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.