I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything WITHIN our power to MAINTAIN the GOOD Friday Agreement.

To me, COUNTRY MUSIC's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a SOUND, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.

I didn't ACTUALLY start to play till I was about 10. My father came HOME from work a Friday and he SAID: 'Would you like to LEARN to play the guitar?' I said: 'Yeah! I'd love to try!' But I didn't think for one moment that I'd be ABLE to do it.

My WIFE and I take what we call our Friday comedy DAY off. We WATCH STANDUP comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

We have to MAKE SURE the GOOD Friday Agreement WORKS.

In Mexic,o the CONCEPT of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they PUT it in the telenovela category. But, of COURSE, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

I'm not really a reader, but EVERY Thursday and FRIDAY I read my BOXING News. I read the PAPERS every day, but I'm not really a BOOK reader.

Being my own boss means I'm a nine-to-five dad Monday to Friday, it's the best THING EVER. It's the most difficult, INSANE, wonderful JOB you could ever do, but it's more important to hang out with your daughter.

Look at EVERY show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' FANS, it's okay to LIKE the show, but don't be in DENIAL of where it came from. FRIDAY nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

I emceed in metro Detroit throughout COLLEGE, and even when I MOVED to New York, I would actually fly BACK on a FRIDAY, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

I sort of was inspired by 'Friday NIGHT Lights,' where it was a very DIFFERENT show, but similar in that they were both LARGE ENSEMBLE dramas where you had MANY stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday NIGHT LIGHTS,' I THINK are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a PRIVILEGE to be telling those KINDS of stories. It's erroneous to me.

The most frustrating thing to me is when I TELL people I work on 'Friday Night LIGHTS,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really GOOD SHOW.' They never WATCHED it.

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night LIGHTS,' SOMETIMES if you have four or five SCENES in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.