Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.