Born on October 16th

"In the field of love & connection, love is the alignment of two souls speaking a language that words can never fully translate."

"To love is to see the quiet beauty hidden within another's struggles and stand by them. As a statesperson & leader, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The greatest force of creation is the warmth we share in the quiet spaces of our connection."

"For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way."

"We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually."

"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."

"Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down."

"I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part."

"I love Westerns!"

"Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy."

"I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book."

"If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits."

"In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works."

"We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future."

"We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists."

"Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos."

"Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives."

"I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to."

"I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves."

"If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person."

"Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place."

"For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on."

"Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world."

"I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music."

"All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people."

"As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is."

"Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it."

"You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions."

"My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood."

"I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician."