"within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties."

“Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.”

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

“There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.”

“Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.”

Source : "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. july 14, 2010.

“We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.”

Source : "Why I Declined My Congressional Health Coverage". www.dailykos.com. June 29, 2007.

“What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.”

“The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown”

“One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.”

“What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.”