I had lots of breaks.
To me, there’s two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
For no. 1, it’s great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it’s great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just – it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they’re going to come see you, and if they don’t, and if you’re kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won’t come see you.
I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond’s wife, his widow. I’ve seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It’s hard for them to come see the show. It’s still hard.
I think they want to keep it separate, but I’ve never been a crossover artist for some reason.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn’t even know there was a show business.
You don’t even realize how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.
Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.
I think an extreme thing; I adjust it, I adjust it, I adjust it. That’s the way I get to it, but I have to push to, you know, the furthest concept possible.
I quit driving, I’m not retired.
Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting,’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop, acting is much cooler.
I grew up watching fantastic mainstream comedies like ‘Porridge’ and ‘Rising Damp’. There are some mainstream things I love.
My career has been a combination of hard work and timing. Working with Stevie Wonder at the Kennedy Center Honors was timing. The Tonight Show was timing. Carnegie Hall, that was timing. My marriage was timing. I was ready, I wanted to know what it was like.
Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin’. But he started it.
Show No Love , Cus Love Can Get U killed
The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.
[on Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’] He’s a poet, and very deep and profound. He’s just extraordinarily troubled.
