When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.