Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. ”

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. ”

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal. ”

To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life. ”

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life. ”

When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life. ”

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up. ”

It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did. ”

The births of my two girls were wonderful - I felt proud to have helped bring new life into this world. ”

Life is good, and I'm happy, and I don't know that it would be as good if I'd been the winner in Calgary. ”