"I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment."

“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”

Source : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press

“The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.”

“I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Music isn't about music, it's about life.”

“I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.”

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

“I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.”

“And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.”

Source : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

“Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.31, Crown Business