My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Susanna Moodie

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Thomas E. Lawrence

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Matthew Fox

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Jean-Francois Cope

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Thomas S. Foley

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Godfrey Reggio

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson