Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.

I'm a magician, not a singer.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.