"It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't."

“Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

“I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.”

Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

“All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.”

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”

“To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.”

Source : Erie Times, SportsWeek, March 3, 1986.

“So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.