The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

I'd had people say 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time it isn't natural.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families small businesses and family farms.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

I don't have anything against my mom but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it against aggression.