Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear.

To transcend to a higher level, become the symbol of love and kindness.

The eternal spacecreates the temporary spacesand anti-spacesfor zero.

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

Design is thinking made visual.