Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

I have an opportunity to be in the N.B.A. and play the game that I love the most and be able to take care of my family and myself.

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.