My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

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.

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

I've always dreamed of having a large family.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.