Sheena Easton

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
Sheena Easton

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
Sheena Easton

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.
Sheena Easton

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.
Sheena Easton

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.
Sheena Easton

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.
Sheena Easton

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.
Sheena Easton

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
Sheena Easton

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
Sheena Easton

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.
Sheena Easton

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
Sheena Easton

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
Sheena Easton

I'd love to do a duet with Luther Vandross.
Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
Sheena Easton

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.
Sheena Easton

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.
Sheena Easton

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
Sheena Easton

If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Sheena Easton

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
Sheena Easton

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.
Sheena Easton

Fred Rogers

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Fred Rogers

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
Fred Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers

Michael Bolton

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
Michael Bolton

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
Michael Bolton

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
Michael Bolton

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
Michael Bolton

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.
Michael Bolton

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
Michael Bolton

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
Michael Bolton

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
Michael Bolton

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Michael Bolton

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
Michael Bolton

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
Michael Bolton

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
Michael Bolton

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
Michael Bolton

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
Michael Bolton

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.
Michael Bolton

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
Michael Bolton

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
Michael Bolton

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Michael Bolton

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
Michael Bolton

John Oates

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
John Oates

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
John Oates

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
John Oates

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
John Oates

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
John Oates

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
John Oates

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
John Oates

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
John Oates

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
John Oates

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
John Oates

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
John Oates

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
John Oates

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
John Oates

It's the music that brings us together.
John Oates

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
John Oates

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
John Oates

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
John Oates

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
John Oates

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
John Oates

"Shakira"

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.
Shakira

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
Shakira

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
Shakira

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
Shakira

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
Shakira

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
Shakira

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Shakira

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
Shakira

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.
Shakira

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
Shakira

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
Shakira

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Shakira

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Shakira

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
Shakira

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
Shakira

You're a song written by the hands of God.
Shakira

Stan Laurel

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
Stan Laurel

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
Stan Laurel

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.
Stan Laurel

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.
Stan Laurel

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
Stan Laurel

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
Drew Barrymore

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
Drew Barrymore

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
Drew Barrymore

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
Drew Barrymore

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.
Drew Barrymore

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
Drew Barrymore

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
Drew Barrymore

I never act my characters - I am them.
Drew Barrymore

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
Drew Barrymore

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Drew Barrymore

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
Drew Barrymore

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
Drew Barrymore

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
Drew Barrymore

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.
Drew Barrymore

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
Drew Barrymore

Malcolm X

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Malcolm X

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Malcolm X

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

Stumbling is not falling.
Malcolm X

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X

Sidney Poitier

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
Sidney Poitier

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Sidney Poitier

History passes the final judgment.
Sidney Poitier

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
Sidney Poitier

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Sidney Poitier

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
Sidney Poitier

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Sidney Poitier

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
Sidney Poitier

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
Sidney Poitier

I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so.
Sidney Poitier

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
Sidney Poitier

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
Sidney Poitier

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
Sidney Poitier

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
Sidney Poitier

Jeff Daniels

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Jeff Daniels

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.
Jeff Daniels

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
Jeff Daniels

Molly Ringwald

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
Molly Ringwald

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
Molly Ringwald

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.
Molly Ringwald

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.
Molly Ringwald

Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
Billie Joe Armstrong

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Sonny Bono

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
Sonny Bono

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Sonny Bono

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
Sonny Bono

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
Sonny Bono

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
Sonny Bono

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
Sonny Bono

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.
Sonny Bono

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
Sonny Bono

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.
Sonny Bono

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.
Sonny Bono

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
Sonny Bono

Harvey Korman

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
Harvey Korman

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.
Harvey Korman

But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
Harvey Korman

Funny is when you're serious.
Harvey Korman

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
Harvey Korman

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
Harvey Korman

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
Harvey Korman

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
Harvey Korman

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
Harvey Korman

I'm not a star.
Harvey Korman

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
Harvey Korman

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.
Harvey Korman

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch of a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
Harvey Korman

Florence Henderson

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
Florence Henderson

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
Florence Henderson

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
Florence Henderson

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
Florence Henderson

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
Florence Henderson

Jerry Springer

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.
Jerry Springer

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Jerry Springer

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.
Jerry Springer

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.
Jerry Springer

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
Jerry Springer

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
Jerry Springer

With a face like mine, I do better in print.
Jerry Springer

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
Stephen Baldwin

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
Stephen Baldwin

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
Stephen Baldwin

I was always a God guy.
Stephen Baldwin

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
Stephen Baldwin

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.
Stephen Baldwin

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.
Stephen Baldwin

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
Stephen Baldwin

I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.
Stephen Baldwin

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
Stephen Baldwin

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.
Stephen Baldwin

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.
Stephen Baldwin

You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.
Stephen Baldwin

You know what, man? I don't have time to worry about what people think. I'm focused on the youth of America. I'm focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that's the message in the media.
Stephen Baldwin

Judy Blume

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
Alison Bechdel

Sidney Sheldon

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read Rage of Angels. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
Sidney Sheldon

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.
Sidney Sheldon

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
Sidney Sheldon

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
Sidney Sheldon

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
Sidney Sheldon

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
Sidney Sheldon

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Sidney Sheldon

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sidney Sheldon

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
Sidney Sheldon

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Sidney Sheldon

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
Sidney Sheldon

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Sidney Sheldon

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
Sidney Sheldon

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
Sidney Sheldon

Michael Franti

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Michael Franti

Every single soul is a poem.
Michael Franti

Everyone deserves music.
Michael Franti

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Michael Franti

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
Michael Franti

Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
Michael Franti

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
Michael Franti

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Michael Franti

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
Michael Franti

Luther Vandross

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
Luther Vandross

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
Luther Vandross

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
Luther Vandross

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
Luther Vandross

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
Luther Vandross

Smokey Robinson

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Smokey Robinson

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
Smokey Robinson

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
Smokey Robinson

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
Smokey Robinson

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
Smokey Robinson

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
Smokey Robinson

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
Smokey Robinson

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.
Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
Smokey Robinson

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.
Smokey Robinson

I played golf all over Detroit.
Smokey Robinson

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.
Smokey Robinson

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
Smokey Robinson

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
Smokey Robinson

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.
Smokey Robinson

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
Smokey Robinson

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Smokey Robinson

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Smokey Robinson

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Smokey Robinson

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.
Smokey Robinson

James Dean

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
James Dean

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
James Dean

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
James Dean

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean

Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
James Dean

The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
James Dean

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
James Dean

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean

Garth Brooks

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
Garth Brooks

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Garth Brooks

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!
Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
Garth Brooks

I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Garth Brooks

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
Garth Brooks

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
Garth Brooks

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
Garth Brooks

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
Garth Brooks

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Garth Brooks

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.
Garth Brooks

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Garth Brooks

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
Garth Brooks

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
Garth Brooks

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Garth Brooks

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Garth Brooks

Jon Bon Jovi

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
Jon Bon Jovi

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Jon Bon Jovi

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
Jon Bon Jovi

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Jon Bon Jovi

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
Jon Bon Jovi

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Jon Bon Jovi

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Jon Bon Jovi

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
Jon Bon Jovi

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.
Jon Bon Jovi

William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
William Shatner

A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
William Shatner

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
William Shatner

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
William Shatner

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
William Shatner

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
William Shatner

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
William Shatner

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
William Shatner

I think making a good film shot is joyful.
William Shatner

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
William Shatner

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
William Shatner

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
William Shatner

Clint Black

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.
Clint Black

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
Clint Black

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.
Clint Black

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
Clint Black

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
Clint Black

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
Clint Black

Jackie Gleason

How sweet it is!
Jackie Gleason

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
Jackie Gleason

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
Jackie Gleason

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Jackie Gleason

Audrey Meadows

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
Audrey Meadows

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.
Audrey Meadows

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.'
Audrey Meadows

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.
Audrey Meadows

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'
Audrey Meadows

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.
Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.
Audrey Meadows

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
Audrey Meadows

I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that he always called me Francis, I always felt like I was going to a party, instead of work. It was such a blast.'
Audrey Meadows

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.
Audrey Meadows

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.
Audrey Meadows

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
Audrey Meadows

Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
Audrey Meadows

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
Audrey Meadows

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.
Audrey Meadows

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.
Audrey Meadows

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.
Audrey Meadows

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
Audrey Meadows

Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'
Audrey Meadows

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.
Audrey Meadows

Lisa Marie Presley

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
Lisa Marie Presley

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Lisa Marie Presley

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Lisa Marie Presley

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Lisa Marie Presley

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
Lisa Marie Presley

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
Lisa Marie Presley

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
Lisa Marie Presley

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
Lisa Marie Presley

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
Lisa Marie Presley

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
Lisa Marie Presley

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.
Lisa Marie Presley

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
Lisa Marie Presley

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
Lisa Marie Presley

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
Lisa Marie Presley

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
Lisa Marie Presley

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.
Lisa Marie Presley

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
Lisa Marie Presley

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
Lisa Marie Presley