We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.