“My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and ...” — Jake Tapper Quote

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

The country crowd just has fun.

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.