"If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him."

“I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.”

“I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.”

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“Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”

“There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.”

“A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.”

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”