Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn't just beat the Progressive establishment - he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the space of one election campaign.

Most people dont have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the states.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Honestly, I've been asking myself how it would feel to be Princess Leia since I was seven years old.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Dont listen to those rules about face shape.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

If all the year were playing holidays to sport would be as tedious as to work.