George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.