After 9/11, people all of a sudden became patriotic and showed the colors. Why did it take something bad to happen? It means something. People have died for it, and continue to do so.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.