My father's really fluent in FRENCH, but I can't speak at all. I actually TOOK it TWICE in school already and FAILED both times!

What consumerism REALLY is, at its worst is GETTING people to BUY THINGS that don't actually improve their lives.

I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. EVERYBODY sang; everybody had SONGS all the TIME, and they loved MUSIC.

I read somewhere that 77 PER cent of all the mentally ill LIVE in poverty. ACTUALLY, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing QUITE well for themselves.

I think the HARDEST accent for me to do is what I end up TRYING a lot of times, and it's LIKE some sort of a general American sound. So not Southern and not east-coast or west-coast, but just a general American sound that no one really speaks, ACTUALLY.

There are places on a MAN's HEAD that are as hard as a ROCK. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many INSTRUMENTS up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body SHOT.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused ATTITUDE. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to ACTUALLY be PRESENT with PEOPLE, and seeking to LOVE them.

For most of US, the great danger is not that we will renounce our FAITH. It is that we will become so distracted and RUSHED and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre VERSION of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually LIVING them.

If you listen to PEOPLE talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ASK for something, they're real sweet. It's all MUSIC.

If you ACTUALLY HANG out in the COUNTRYSIDE, which I did, it's actually QUITE PEACEFUL.