Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

I think Donald Trump showed a real quality that every leader needs, and that's resiliency.