For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

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.

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

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

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