We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.

...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.

The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.