My background was in performing originally.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

My background was in performing originally.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food but they hide out in packaged foods too even presumed innocent ones like crackers.

Night is a world lit by itself.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

Its frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'

Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.