For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
