When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. T...
We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming f...
Jordan leaned on the counter. He felt a little like a bartender in a TV show, dispensing sage advice. "What do you owe her?" "Life," Isabelle said. Jordan blinked. This was a little beyond his bartending and advice-offering skills. "She saved your li...
They have cast my life like dice, in a game that is not a game. The unusual erupted into my life like a storm; I mean unusual in my actual perception of things. Do not mistake me; I never desired things that are certainly harder to bear, and nobody a...
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further...
There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth; that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of i...
[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assure...
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my l...
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
My ambition was to live like music.
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.
I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
Gretl: It'll be my first party, father.
I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!
