I always wanted to be a singer, and I focused on that goal, even when others told me I couldn't do it.

You can't look back, you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

I want my music to make people feel something.

Success is not about luck; it's about hard work, persistence, and making the right decisions.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.