I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

To redeem the influential sphere of the government is to act based on the teaching received

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.