Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

You can't eat straight A's.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Don't expect people behave the way you want them to.

The only moment we need in our lives, is the moment right now as we don't know what tomorrow may bring or the destruction of your world.

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.