What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We're not getting any younger.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Don’t let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

Vote early and vote often.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game you really do train to play. It tops up your ability like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

I'm very happy at Atletico. I'm very proud to play for these fans, with these players, and with this coach. I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.

The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage you will never quench your thirst and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die. Life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.

Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

If you are a leader you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it young or old successful or less than successful unknown or famous is changed by it.

If you don't like being a doormat then get off the floor.