E. A. Davis Quotes

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

Music is an addiction.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

I throw 70 miles an hour. That’s throwing like a girl.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!"

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

Art is not in some far-off place.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I don't even take aspirin.