My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Van Morrison

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Pete Townshend

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

F. Marion Smith

I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

Shannon A. Thompson

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Francis Ford Coppola

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

Phyllis Diller

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

Jamie Muir

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

John Cusack

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

Samuel Johnson

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Lord Burleigh

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley