All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.

History is a bucket of ashes.