"I work twice as hard as everybody else."

“I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.”

“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.”

Source : "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

“I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it”

“A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause”

“Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.”

“A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

“I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.”

“John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.”

Source : 'The Every-Day Book' (1826-27) vol. 2, pt. 1, col. 820