Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.

The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.

When your purpose and passion are in alignment, your work becomes your calling, your life becomes your dream, and your mindset becomes 20/20 in clarity.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

After all, if we are co-creators of our reality, as so many philosophies have espoused, then we have a say in how it is, how it goes and our participation in it, right?

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.