I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.