"Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success."

“Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.”

“I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.”

“So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.”

Source : "Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 8, 2012.

“Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.”

“Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.”

“Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.”

“Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la...”

“I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.”

Source : "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.