In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.