After about three lessons my voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way.'

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Heinrich Heine

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Algernon Sydney

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Marlene Dietrich

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Friedrich von Schiller

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Aaron Neville

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

Dominic Monaghan

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Catherine Deneuve

The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.

Brian MacLearn

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

Kelly Preston

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Frederick Smith