I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.
I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.
People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.
I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
