Life is really funny, and can take so many different directions from every single decision you make. You need to focus on an outcome early in life, so you make the decisions that get you to where you want to end up.

I never had that focus growing up. I actually didn't think I would make it past thirty, so all of my decisions were random unfocused bullshit.

Then I didn't think I would make it to fifty, and a lot of my decisions were random unfocused bullshit. On the day I turned fifty I shook my young son Riley's hand and told him I would quit smoking if he agreed to never start. Finally, a good decision!

I didn't envision myself landing as a sad lonely old man on a dead end street in the deep South, but I have obviously made the decisions that got me here.

We only get one shot at life, and I wish someone had told me this, as a kid...