The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.