"American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood."

“I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.”

Source : "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.”

“We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain”

“It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart.”

“Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.”

Source : Andrew McAleer (2008). “101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers”, p.66, Adams Media

“I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.”

“It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.”

“Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.