When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I hate Mcdonalds... but i'm forced to eat it.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.