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As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.