As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Michael K. Simpson

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Steven Spielberg

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

Emeril Lagasse

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right.

Kazuo Ishiguro

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

Benjamin Franklin

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Samuel Goldwyn

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Paul Gillmor

I'm the git in the family.

Clive Owen

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Bruce Lee