I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.
Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.
I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.
My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.
I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense. But now I knew that every mad word was true.
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.
I also knew that music was pretty much the only thing in life that he felt was worth the hassle.
When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.
The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.
It was over, and I knew that. But you don't love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight...
She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
