It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ''ethic.''

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.