It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Time isn't a commodity something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time they're really asking for a chunk of your life.

It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big deal.

The average pregnant woman farts 15 times that!

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.