If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we’d never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.

Her voice was a hushed whisper against my ear. An audible smile.

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.

And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.