I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

Ride Em Cowboy dont let them throw ya down.. You cant make no money if ya hit the ground Ride Em Cowboy dont let them throw ya down Youre the toughest Cowboy in town.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

If you have had the same dishwasher for 10 years or more, don't bother repairing it. The average dishwasher is expected to last nine years, and you've most likely squeezed as much life out of it as you can.

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.