The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.