I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.