The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.