What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.

If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

You can't expect people who are too lazy to run to accompany you on a marathon.

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

Ladies & GentlemanIf you were happy before him/her, you definitely can be happy without him/her. Don't cry.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.