I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

We decided to do some of Merles things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute a bass clarinet a trumpet a clarinet drums a guitar vibes and a piano.

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny.

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

The sound of the drum drives out thought for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.