We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

I always look well when I'm near death.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.