There's something about a cowboy...

Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.