Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us. " If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.
Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.
We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.