"It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar"

“If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.”

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

“That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.”

“Failure is sucess if we learn from it.”

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

“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

“Wherever I find love I will accept it.”

“It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.”

Source : Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.142, Penguin UK

“When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.”

Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.