Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.

All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

My greatest asset now is my focus.

I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!