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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.