Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house...
I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die...
I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I aw...
I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.
There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw at...
I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the p...
When I look back at where I come from, I realize it's for a good reason that God changed my life.
My life was changed in one breath from God.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.