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I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.