Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

There are things about my body that I don't love, but I'm not trying to look perfect every day - I'm trying to look like me!

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how.

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

It is about that self-belief, that self-drive, that has got me to where I am now.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

Science is magic that works.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

When you retire, you switch bosses from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.