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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.