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The Country Is So Wounded, Bleeding, And Hurt Right Now. The Country Needs To Be Healed-it's Not Going To Be Healed From The Top, Politically. How Are We Going To Heal? Art Is The Healing Force.

What Really Matters Is The Work. And What Matters To Me Is Doing The Work. I'm Not Looking At The Back End: "what Am I Going To Get Out Of This? What's Going To Be The Reward?" I'm Just Looking At The Work, The Pleasure Of Being Able To Do The Work. And That's What The Fun Is: To Climb Up The Mountain Is The Fun, Not Standing At The Top. There's Nowhere To Go. But Climbing Up, That Struggle, That To Me Is Where The Fun Is. That To Me Is The Thrill. But Once That's Over, That's Kind Of It. I Don't Look Too Much Beyond That.

If You Stay In Beverly Hills Too Long, You Become A Mercedes.

The Way You Really Find Out About The Performer's Seriousness About The Cause Is How Long They Stay With It When The Spotlight Gets Turned Off. You See A Lot Of Celebrities Switch Gears. They Go From The Environment To Animal Rights To Obesity Or Whatever. That I Don't Have A Lot Of Respect For.

The Meter Is Ticking [particularly In The Face Of Climate Change], So You've Got To Get To As Much As You Can As Fast As You Can. I Grew Up With 'this Land Is Our Land,' And Public Land Doesn't Belong To That Administration Or This One. We Want Our Kids To Grow Up With Real Natural Places, Not Just Photos Of Them.