You can't ignore things like that, ... We've got a culture here that has depended on an educational level that is not appropriate for the times we're living in.

We've got to teach parents to expect their children to go on to college. There's a culture here of manufacturing. And we need manufacturing jobs. But we need a higher level of education to attract better jobs.

Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor, ... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers.

I'm getting to know the culture and doing a lot of listening, ... I'm here to become part of the organization.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.