I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

With all the negativity going on in the world right now people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

So it allows me to travel I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton but it's the wrong century.

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves whether that involves color black and white platinum palladium and digital technology.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

But I really like hosting I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise and I love the spontaneity of that and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.