P.M. MATHIS Quotes

One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

Pain is not an evolutionary error.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Its just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.

Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten.Hold them close.