But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

I don't work at being ordinary.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.