The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

Decades ago women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health pushing bills to limit access to vital services we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers which I do not underestimate.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients but even to strangers.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.