You cannot prepare enough for anything.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I do not see scales as abstract.

It is normal to be nervous.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

Running through things because you are familiar with them breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.

I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance and its always a struggle. You struggle for more access. Its a little bit of a seduction process trying to get more access.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Birth is a beautiful thing.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.