My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be."

In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths.

Vices are not crimes.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.