I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

Big egos have little ears.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.