My pure love is playing music.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.