[he smiles, a slight, wry smile.]

Yeah, well, I know better than to set us up for failure by saying something like that.

[and then he will try to tackle philosophy, part two:]

I'm not — I wasn't trying to say you need to be one thing or the other. Don't — don't worry about that, it's not important. I just was trying to say that things get better. It'll balance out. It's all gonna balance out.