I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.