I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Lily Allen

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Stendhal

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Jackson Browne

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

Jason Mraz

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Voltaire

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Karl Malone

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

Bertrand Russell