If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.