The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I still CONTINUE SAYING "Honest"... and "Honesty.." sounds like addiction to words.

You can choose to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.