"I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it."

“Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team”

“A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.”

Source : "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.

“If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.”

“In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.”

“I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.”

Source : "Bee Gee lashes out over Norton jokes" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

“I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.”

“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”

“Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”