"Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!"

“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.”

Source : "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

“Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.”

“The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.”

Source : "Abstract Painting" by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., (p. 11), 1964.

“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”

“Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?”

“Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.”

“This health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work - never has anywhere else - and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.”

“Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.”