You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

I will always be a girl that laughs as easily as she cries.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.