All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

But you held your pride like you should've held me

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.