The most important thing is to be true to yourself, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com.

We are wrapping up our grad week festivities today with Ellen DeGeneres.

And this is the commencement address that she gave at Tulane University in 2009.

And the audio quality is not perfect, but the message certainly is.

You're also going to have a few laughs. Here's Ellen.

Oh boy, thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowan, distinguished guest, undistinguished guest, you know who you are.

Honored faculty and a creepy Spanish teacher.

And thank you to all the graduating class of 2009.

I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate till I finish a listen up.

When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes.

Then I went to look up what commencement meant.

Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, but most of the books in our house are courses and they're all written in Australian.

So I had to break the word down myself to find out the meaning.

Commencement. Common and cement. Common cement.

You commonly see cement on sidewalks.

Sidewalks have cracks and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back.

So there's that.

But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement.

I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus, alumni, alumnus, you had to graduate from the school.

And I didn't go to college here and as I don't know if President Cowan knows, I didn't go to college at all, any college.

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