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

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.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Without continual growth and progress such words as improvement achievement and success have no meaning.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

I like to make people think a little bit.

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

The will of man is the will of God.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.