I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

Change nothing, just be yourself to experience peace.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.