Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.