I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

Steve has the most unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard.

We never rehearsed.

We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

There was one year that I was on the road.

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

Now we have an audience that is so very eclectic. Big, tremendous fans.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

It was very hard for all of us. Its still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years... its unbelievable.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Our goal isn't to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal, and what gets us excited, is to try to make great products.

You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

If suffering brought wisdom the dentists office would be full of luminous ideas.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

For me, it's about moderation and discipline, and that's something I picked up from my dad. I don't believe in rigorous workouts but believe in eating right, going to bed early, and getting a proper workout.

I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting people's desires. Generally those who boast most of contentment have least of it. Their very boasting shows they want something and basely beg it, namely commendation.