No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.