Interview: Kipp, age 9.
Q. Are you a morning person?
A. Well, you know, not really. I'd like to sleep until 10:00 AM every day.
Q. Does your dad make the best breakfasts in the entire world?
A. Yes. My dad makes great French toast. He also makes good bulls-eye (eggs and bread, fried).
Q. How many girls are in your class at school?
A. 13. None of them are cool.
Q. You play both piano and the violin. Ever thought of playing the harmonica?
A. No. I'd like to play guitar but the kid (kid brother) broke all the strings on my guitar.
Q. Do you even know where your guitar is?
A. In my closet.
Q. What is the coolest thing that your mom can do?
A. Help me with my homework and drive a car.
Q. What is your dream vacation destination?
A. California. Where Tony Hawk lives, wheresoever that is.
Q. Who is cooler, Tony Hawk, Val Rossi or your dad?
A. Rossi. Because he's rides a MotoGP bike.
Q. Who is the most frustrating person in your life.
A. Probably Toby because he smashes my legos.
Q. What are you perpetually late for everything?
A. I don't know. I'm a last minute kind of guy.
Q. What is less fun, getting a haircut or homework?
A. Homework, because at my haircut place I get to have snacks and when I do homework I don't.
Q. How much money do you have in your wallet, right now?
A. $49
Q. Sigh. Why do you insist on carrying that much money all the time?
A. I don't. I leave it upstairs in my room.
Q. What is the grossest thing you can think of?
A. The book Ripley's Believe it or Not. Because it's all the grossest stuff in the world.
Q. Global warming fact or fiction?
A. Fact.
Q. Dinosaurs and men walked the earth at the same time, fact or fiction?
A. Fiction.
Q. Do you miss your old school?
A. No, it's a piece of crap. Because I didn't like the people there. The teachers were nice, but not the kids.
Q. Do you think you'll get your ear pierced when you are older?
A. No. Because mom says anything I do when I'm older, you'll do. And I don't want to see you with a pierced ear.
Q. What is your favorite movie of all time?
A. Top Secret or One Crazy Summer. Because they are funny and dumb at the same time.
Q. Riley, is he your best friend?
A. One of them.