I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

I'm a huge gamer.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.

Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.

Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.

Your life is a message to the world make sure its inspiring.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.