But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.
Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.
Skiing not only for yourself and your family, but for your country, was surreal. The amount of support I got from back home in Indiana was insane.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!
I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play.
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
