You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

I've never been ambitious about recording.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

I have a good ear for languages.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

I'm not really into religion.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I just want to say good night sweet prince may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were tomorrows a fresh opportunity to make it better.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.