There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.