Americans Are Generally Very Self-sufficient And I

Like Most Alaska Immigrants, My Roots Continue To Petition For Equal Time.

Professor Al Drake Encouraged Me To Just Write The Way I Talk. I Decided If That's What I Needed To Do, I Didn't Need To Be In School To Do It.

I'm Real. I Believe What I'm Saying. If Motel 6 Wasn't The Type Of Operation They Say It Is - And I Stay At Them When I Travel - I Wouldn't Do Their Commercials. That Comes Through On The Radio, And That's What It's All About.

You Can Make A New Friend But You Can't Make An Old One.

Somebody Says, 'do A Tom Bodett, A Folksy Kind Of Thing,' And It Sounds Like Something Out Of 'hee Haw,' Very Insulting. They Turn Wry Humor Into Disparaging Sarcasm, And You Get What Amounts To Insulting Advertising.