"It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless."

“You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.”

“To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.”

“I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.”

Source : "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.

“We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.”

“I tell the stories that are of interest to me.”

“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”

“Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.”

Source : Ann Louise Gittleman (2016). “The New Fat Flush Plan”, p.133, McGraw Hill Professional