And they said if we help with the crisis they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

I had a really bad temper when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed for instance is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

In addition to serving overseas the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize things that I said yesterday with nobody paying too much attention I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.