I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Margaret Mead

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Lester Bangs

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Laura Schlessinger

Only little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary.

Kaiden Blake

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Slavoj Zizek

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Picabia

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

David Byrne

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Chris Isaak