I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

She just keeps kissing my scars. Every scar. She knows about them all. She watched them all appear and heal. Sophie's lips against me make every punch, every kick, every wound, every scar worth it.

Look for the joy in each andevery day. Just because it isn’timmediately obvious, that doesn’tmean it’s not there.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.