I show rock and rollers how to grow old gracefully.

With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes.

If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.

It was a lot of fun in the back of that bus with Ritchie Valens, Buddy and The Big Bopper sharing each other's songs.

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.