I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.
I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.
This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.
No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.
I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
