There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

Sanity is not statistical.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.