I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.

Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.

Keeping secrets isn't my specialty.

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

Music does not have a race or a disposition! ... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.

True artists scorn nothing.

We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!