I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

AllianceTexas is a cash machine for our public partners.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

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

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.