Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

My pure love is playing music.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.