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“Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, an...”
“The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.”
“Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.”
“I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.”
“Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.”
“But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.”
“In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.”
“I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not being this unattainable thing. I think doing sports and riding motorcycles has made me more a...”
“There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.”
“If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.”
“I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to m...”
“If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.”
“The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'”
“It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country ski...”
“If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.”
“Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.”
“I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sail...”
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
“For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.”
“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”
