It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

I was a purist bore.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

I'm very fond of piano players.

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

The American dream is under assault.

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?

I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control strength mind play and measured movement.

A football team represents a way of being a culture.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.