This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

You can be happy irrespective of what you have.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.