Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.
I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.
There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.
There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.
When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.
I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.
Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.
