Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.