An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.