Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

No one is useless in this world, I might not do the greats you do, endure greatly as you do but at some point we have something in common, we both NEED one another.

Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I watch him all the way home.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.