(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

I want a place where I can have horses.

I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

The search is in the doing.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.