I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.

So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.