I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.