I was really SCARED when I went to Oregon State. I wasn't SURE I COULD play at the COLLEGE LEVEL.

In my BRIGHT, utopian future WORLD, they will hand out COLLEGE educations LIKE cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

After I'd GOTTEN a year under my BELT in college, I THOUGHT I'd outgrown my home.

The IDEAL COLLEGE is Mark Hopkins on one end of a LOG and a STUDENT on the other.

My FIRST job out of college was with HBO. I WORKED in a small sales OFFICE in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a LITTLE, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were ALWAYS amazing.

I started WRITING my first book for young PEOPLE when I was in college. I was only a couple of YEARS out of my teens when I began; I felt CLOSER to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've ALWAYS been drawn to stories about young people.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a NEW skill SET, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like COLLEGE for LIFE.

Do not be AFRAID to ask for HELP. Nobody GETS through COLLEGE on their own.

I graduated from Jones COLLEGE, man, in Jacksonville, FLORIDA, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I GO to college, so I graduated, MADE the dean's list and everything.

While I was at college STUDYING DESIGN I decided to paint. I was also GREATLY inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian RAIN forest.

All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at LITTLE LEAGUE basketball, you need to learn at the upper LEVELS. It's the little things you learn when you're little that APPLY in COLLEGE.

I don't KNOW if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in HIGH school, and then during COLLEGE I spent some time WORKING at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I never thought about COLLEGE, but my MOM thought about it for me. I KNEW 100 PERCENT it wasn't for me.

I was totally sober in college and REALLY, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be PARTYING and just made music and PLAYED at the PARTY INSTEAD.