I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I just love listening to the laughter.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

All of my style came from listening to records.