Eventually, it slowly built up, a small job to a slightly bigger job to a slightly bigger job to the third season of NBC's 'This is Us.'

I joke that the beard does 40 percent of the job.

The goal for me, always, is to have fun, and to kind of intentionally be unexpected and go against the dress code a little bit.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.

When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.