I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

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.

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

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.

She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home.

Look at the beautiful side of life and be happy.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.