"Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms."

“I speak to everybody. I'm one of those kind of artists that I'm cool with everybody. If they [fans] want to meet me, it's cool. That's as far as it goes. But I'm the cool artist. I shake everybody's hand, try to sign all the autographs, take pictures when I can.”

Source : "Lil Jon is ready to get wild on the road". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 24, 2005.

“People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.”

“The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.”

Source : "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”

“The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.”

“Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.”

“Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.”

Source : "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

“History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.”