Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

George Balanchine

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Julius Erving

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Woody Allen

Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

General George Patton

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

Mike McCready

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Jane Austen, opening lines to Pr

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Virginia Woolf

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

Jill Scott

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of San

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

James Baldwin