I'm full of dust and guitars.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I like songs that are simple.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Fairy-tales are nice.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon which itself never makes its appearance but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind and is as various as nature herself.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.

When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.