I've seen a FAIR BIT of the States and the REST of the WORLD, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art SCHOOL and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn PHOTOGRAPHY at the UNIVERSITY of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to MAKE movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would have been the GREATEST race in NASCAR HISTORY, I'm convinced of it, had we have MADE it that last quarter of a mile. But instead it became the worst race in NASCAR history when Dale CRASHED and died on TURN four.

My EXPERIENCES have ALSO CONVINCED me that SEXUAL HARASSMENT is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.

I'm only really good at MAKING music. I wasn't CONVINCED when I STARTED out, but then I heard the first STONE Roses' LP.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he KEEPS hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that DIFFICULT, TRULY.

I was CONVINCED that I was GOING to be ONSTAGE for the REST of my LIFE.

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I THOUGHT it was too MUCH for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night CONVINCED I was going to call him back and say no.

So we are PRETTY convinced we don't WANT to PLAY HUGE stadiums UNLESS we can play them well.

I am not convinced the Clean Air ACT was ever INTENDED to regulate or classify as a DANGEROUS pollutant something as BASIC and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could IMAGINE what it would be like to lose a son or DAUGHTER. You TRY to imagine it so that you can write the RIGHT kind of letters or form the right WORDS to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.

Before you try to CONVINCE anyone ELSE, be SURE you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't THINK I was CONVINCED about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore EAST' hit - that one removed all DOUBT!

Our national political CAMPAIGNS NEVER stop. We SEEM convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that MINORITIES exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.