There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.