I'm going to go to my house and drink a little bit. Can I say that? I guess I can.

I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.

I'm close to six feet, I like to think.

The more torque I can come up with, the better.

I've learned a lot about being in the public eye. I'm certainly handling things more maturely now, I'm not getting as scared as easily.

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

Nobody wants to lose. But I don't care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don't look at it.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.