“I’ve been playing the drums since age nine.”

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I’m ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal… coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I was a cheerleader for nine years.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me.

I didn’t realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.