My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Self-analysis always cheats.

If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.