"But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs."

Music, Compromise, Friends, Songs

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"But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs."

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"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing."

Acting

"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early."

Mistake

"Actually I have been singing since I was a kid."

Singing

"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."

First

"I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect."

People

"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."

Hollywood

"What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words."

People

"Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship."

Old

"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."

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"So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing."

Living