I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone
There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
Goals have to be realistic and flexible.
Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.
I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love. " It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.
When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.