It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.

It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.