Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Having dinner with somebody you've looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, 'Wow. I'm having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.' That's intense.

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

When you spend a few years being who you are, completely unbiased, you can figure out what you actually want.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

I was a child of the '80s.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Theres a balance in my life. Theres reality and theres the part that looks really glamorous but were all just people in the end.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.