"Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Tell her where you came from and how you got there. Let her see that you have had fears, failures, anxious times, hurts, just like hers, even though you may look flawless to her."

“I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

“A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.”

Source : "March Madness and the Successful Sitcom" by Gary David Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2008.

“Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.”

“I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.”

“Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

“I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.”

“You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.”