My mother was a teacher my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher like my father wanted to be and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

He was very commanding and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because frankly he could make more money doing that.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

I've been a teacher at the college level in composition mostly and I've been an editor on magazines.

Without any doubt at all teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just incidentally of education but I would argue probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

In high school I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor and my stepfather who raised me along with my mother is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.