It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.

Instead, she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond, dark water evaporating, waiting desperately for rain.

Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.