The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.