When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her..

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent..

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

Necessity is the author of change..

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him ge….

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman..

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby..

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly n….

Listen to presences inside poems..

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

Here we are now, entertain us..

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year..

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine..

Love can tame the wildest..

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't ….

You don't take a picture, you make a picture..

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar ….

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..