It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.
Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.
One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the different characters. I was the Tin Man!
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.
My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
