Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don’t know what to expect.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Now that I’m older, I like almost anything that’s done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements… there’s usually a butting of heads at one point.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

A good interpreter can take a piece he doesn’t like but he should not play it like he does not like it. Her should play it like he likes it.

I’ve agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won’t change that much.

I’m a real Suzy Homemaker.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

It’s all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to...

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must...

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that’s where I want to raise my kids.

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody...

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this...

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they’re all human beings and creatures of God.

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It’s like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I’ll show up....

Exactly, especially when you’re talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.

Death is an awful thing. I don’t believe in it myself.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else...

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

The music now is about my personal life, where I’m at as a 24-year-old young woman, so it’s very honest and it’s very pure and it’s very emotional.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It’s the reverse of the West.

Traditionally, songwriters can’t sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score....

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it’s not just a religion, it’s a realisation.