I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment