I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

With you, I would walk anywhere

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.