My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

By speaking in a competent and confident way, your message will sound more relevant and appropriate, reflecting you in a favorable light.

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy