My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
I close my eyes then I drift away into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer like dreamers do then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
I played teen roles until high definition came out and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Well I'll tell you something this wedding is something that I will always always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
The way I see it you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
If I felt in the event of a royal wedding inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't I'd ignore it.
We live in an age in an era where there is so much negativity there is so much violence in the world there is so much unrest and people are at war that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
In my cranky old age I actually prefer recording alone now on 'The Simpsons' for example because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times when I record with a group I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
By age seven I used to comb my hair for performances just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose it seems to me must be the improvement of mankind.
I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
I am not a scientist. I am rather an impresario of scientists.
The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools but you know that's how I kept track of what was going on.
Some mornings you wake up and think gee I look handsome today. Other days I think what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends church school church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
I think that clearly it has an influence to be coming of age during the punk rock era to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background to have been in and out of such chaos I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
When I was 18 I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21 I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
Feels good to try but playing a father I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking letting yourself go.
Like most people my age my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes that's it.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry because they come to me out of love and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man woman and child in Iraq shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man woman and child in the United States?
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money but I'm very picky.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.
Stay out of the sun because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
Well I actually first got into music as a small child and as I became a teen I sought out making money from music weather that was singing lounge gigs backup in studios or weddings.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine' 'X Men' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100000 in one day in a posh boutique.
White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is and she lives in Spain.
When I was a boy I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
I hated every minute of training but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
I grew up watching all these crazy movies European movies and stuff and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
When I go home its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.
We can no longer waste time and money. Every day more than 2000 girls in America age 15-19 give birth - in the wealthiest most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
To my surprise my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
By the age of 9 or 10 I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
My father wants me to be like my brother but I can't be.
I think the sport of wrestling which I became involved with at the age of 14 I competed until I was 34 kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent and there were 150 people waiting for me all wearing masks of my face.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
My dad's a doctor and when I was 8 I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die I never ate meat again.
I don't know whether it's age or maturity but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
But I think it's a little different in Europe because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
I couldn't wait for success so I went ahead without it.
In my old age I have been thinking about this and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9 and I later became a Baptist minister which I am today.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls so I had to beat them with my mind.
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well but you can't really pet them.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
When I do get time I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't get very far.
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
I believe that if you're healthy you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because and I am not making this up he had a pet cat.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Before you start some work always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions go ahead.
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
I think if you exercise your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday I wanted to be 65 again but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.
Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
Oh I was never a businessman. I was a visionary a dreamer.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father the mother and the teacher.
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year but I used the wrong paper. See the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Keywords : everything, body
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
I can live without money but I cannot live without love.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
I don't start with a design objective I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
I really think we should pass a law in every state I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Every time I see something terrible it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts but I never noticed.
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.
Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a rescue.
Like most people I can be lazy so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike swim and run and I love to play soccer.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
As I approach my 88th birthday it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears among other appurtenances aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
For exercise I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy Oscar.
When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice loving mercy and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible and I cried for three days.
You know we'd just had a birthday he was you know he still had a future out of him and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world a very gifted man and it's a loss to the world not just for us.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty equality kindness compassion treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values.
The only rock I know that stays steady the only institution I know that works is the family.
If I don't feel confident about my body I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up motivating yourself and just doing it.
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
With patient and firm determination I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
If one is desperate for love I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not get a new set of friends a new family.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me man. The pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good you know when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns the rattle of musketry the strange mournful mutter of the battlefield.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin my body my mind and try to live my life and be happy.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach for the most part.
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
I'm glad now at age 66 that I never used alcohol or tobacco I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
You know the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
I wake up in the morning I do a little stretching exercises pick up the horn and play.
I spent a lot of time not in school so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
I've always loved 3D. In fact as a kid I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest not just military service.
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time somewhere someone said to themselves You know I want to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
My parents got married late and they had kids late so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends and really I wasn't a very social boy.
What I've enjoyed most though is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources which must be preserved at all cost.
My parents were really really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12 I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
I didn't have a financial need and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
While a case can be made for intelligent design I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
I decided very early on just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Which is I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment I think might be what love is because they both grow from their relationship.
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties like all the Royals he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse I was interested in growth stocks.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60 saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
I am tortured when I am away from my family from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Even though I disagree with many of the changes when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony they are still fine privates; outstanding well motivated privates.
I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
Never say never but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
When I was younger my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact if anything I am the prod.
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
I have a lot of boyfriends I want you to write that. Every country I visit I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
I think I'm a bit less inhibited and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.
The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.
I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?
I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
I went to college at the University of Kansas where I got a degree in political science.
A woman has to be intelligent have charm a sense of humor and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people but I wanted to act.
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time so it wasn't just my dad's story it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
Security is I would say our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives staying in touch with people being creative - if we don't solve these security problems then people will hold back.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
In motivating people you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Lord grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.
It's just a job. Grass grows birds fly waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
When the question arose whether I as a member of the royal family should take part in active combat in the Falklands there was no question in her mind and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
My mother said to me 'If you are a soldier you will become a general. If you are a monk you will become the Pope.' Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.
I have been dairy free for several years and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies which it did and help me lose weight which it did.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
From as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I prefer ordinary girls - you know college students waitresses that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl it doesn't mean we are dating.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels that I equate dating a woman with punishment shame guilt disappointment reproach reprimand persecution. It's a nightmare.
I never had little brothers so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
When I was first divorced I started dating younger women and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like 'This is just dumb.'
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
I'm tired of hearing about money money money money money. I just want to play the game drink Pepsi wear Reebok.
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field the only thing to do was keep swinging.
For my confirmation I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on and I love to make that.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927 I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
I was very successful from a very early age and I want to keep it.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him "At my age I don't even buy green bananas."
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Even though I didn't get a business degree I enjoyed learning about economics.
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now when I have more time I function the same way: if it's writing time I write.
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering and delivering with a sense of violent love.
I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
If I could only have one type of food with me I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce I can flavor a lot of things.
When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say 'I used everything you gave me'.
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
I always wanted to be somebody but now I realize I should have been more specific.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends just being silly in our bedrooms whatever. And I was always the clown.
I've had a little bad bad media luck the new year. Well apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton which makes me nervous. I didn't know though.
I want my audience to know me for my work not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy by suspicions and fear by burst of anger and quarrels.
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15 16 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
In both business and personal life I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages cultures scenery food and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health I did it for the health of the chickens.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Thomas Jefferson once said 'We should never judge a president by his age only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute for half an hour for a day for a month but I can give. I am very happy to do that I want to do that.
Every time I have some moment on a seashore or in the mountains or sometimes in a quiet forest I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I wrote a novel for my degree and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
When I write software I know that it will fail either due to my own mistake or due to some other cause.
I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
When I was a graduate student the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely drinking beer cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring I hang up.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
I started on an Apple II which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4500 a year and I spent half of it on the computer.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching and I do a lot of it.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while it wouldn't be sustainable for me and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized but almost every minority I know who's my age they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Gee I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers I can barely log on!
For four to six months at a time I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast carrots and black coffee.
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.
I got up with my wife I sat down at the computer when she went to work and I didn't stop until she got home.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
And I think women have come a very very long way but they have a long way to go.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards I believe the American family.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own and I like to think I have that.
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing why would I do that? I ain't got time for this just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well you gotta have a place to park the car.'
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically it doesn't hurt to be good-looking especially in this business.
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
It's ironic that at age 32 at probably the greatest moment of my career with The Godfather having such an enormous success I wasn't even aware of it because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
No no I was only funny on stage really. I I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know when I was a child up to about the age of 12.
There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch and if you get hooked on scotch then everything else just tastes wrong.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza pasta and bread. I have lost some weight but my movement is sharper and I feel great.
In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14 and I have worked in the industry ever since.
I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.
A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job you know? Eat. And I do!
They died hard those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
My mother always called me an ugly weed so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
We're just into toys whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys you know?
Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
I mean I'm pretty good in real life but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.
As a novelist I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult but my mum forbid it. Right now I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help not even Mom's.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.
The monarchy is foremost a business and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole it would be about me.
When I travel I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them the fashions they like what makes something good and what would make it even better.
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness I guess in the way I raise my kids.
Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul.
If you ever become a mother can I have one of the puppies?
It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I of course used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat I am sure could walk on a cloud without coming through.
The wedding took place in Vermont where they have legalized gay civil unions and I married a woman.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
I try to remember as I hear about friends getting engaged that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace.
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Right up until the time I retired at age 37 I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis and I said compared to who?
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie' I was comfortable around the dog where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
People just want to hear some common sense and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy they're fun they do things together they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom they're going to respect Mom.
In science "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
As a physician I know many doctors want to utilize new technology but they find the cost prohibitive.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Before my teen years I was losing my hearing pretty quickly and I was getting very very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie I panicked and hit the gym. I was like 'It's going to be on film documented for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together as a team.
Well I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.
Next year I hope there will be even more parties lots of holidays and just having a good time really. Plus wing-walking air shows and learning to fly as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.
Personally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.
I know a lot about cars man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.