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.

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.

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.

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.

Let me love and feel the charm and joy of life.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.