"Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away."

“I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.”

Source : "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

“I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.”

“My mom would never let us quit. She always taught us the importance of sticking with it, even when times are tough. We didn't just hear her, we watched her. I know what to do because she led the way. She showed us that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish the world. No matter where you're from and what you're up against.”

“To me it's very important to be a leader not a follower. Sometimes it takes balls and heart to do that. Sometimes it's not that east to say.”

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”

“The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when dealing with matters of extreme gravity, has a way of toppling set ideas and opening up new modes of interpretation. Furthermore, adding humor tends to shift the power balance.”

“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

Source : "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.

“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.”