It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

What the orators want in depth they give you in length.

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.