It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds.

Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'