It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

Sunday is a teachers day of REST the REST of the laundry the REST of the housework and grade the REST of the papers.

According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

All Christians are but God's stewards. Everything we have is on loan from the Lord, entrusted to us for a while to use in serving Him.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one train station. And there are so many arty, creative people, and things are less rushed, less stressed.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

I do find that as a curvy girl, as I guess I've sort of been deemed, I don't think you want to run your curves off, because then you're just not yourself.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.