The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way

There must be a mistake, " I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.