I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

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.

He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.