I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

People create their own experiences.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.