Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.