Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Be thankful always.

Love is louder than anger, even in silence.

I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won’t stand the same from another man?

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.