I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music. I specifically remember lying on my different sisters' bedroom floors and listening to their record collections. And "Starship Trooper" was one of my sister Nancy's favorite songs and favorite album. Music is so defining for me. In the late '70s and early '80s, I worked in radio. When I was in high school, I worked at two different radio stations.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Principally, I'll give anything a chance, only because the greatest challenges are the ones that you never see coming.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.