oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?
I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.
