I really believe in melody.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

I really believe in melody.

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Mozart is my first strength.

Random outbursts and sudden giggles can only mean one thing: it’s Friday!

I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.

He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.

I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me £2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

Let the buyer beware