Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Taxes do have a clear record of curbing the consumption of, and thus the public-health impact of, tobacco and alcohol.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

Oh! blame not the bard.

John Starks is one of my favorite players.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

There's Lindsey Graham 1.0 and then there's Lindsey Graham 2.0. I could not beat Lindsey Graham 1.0. That was the John McCain-Lindsey Graham.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

I love making pastas and pizzas - carbohydrates.

I don't like the taste of alcohol.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I was heavily into John D. MacDonald.

I don't drink gases, like Coke - just juice and water, and I don't drink alcohol.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.