The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

She shook her head. “I won’t go.”His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. “You say thatas if you have a choice.”“There is always a choice.

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America

Discover day to day excitement.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

A good conscience is paradise.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!