Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob, ' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.