I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.
Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.
I'm not really a pianist.
I'm not an architectural composer.
I admire President Obama's class and measure.
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
I've spent hours playing video games.
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.
A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
I had to do something for the country.
I think I was supposed to play jazz.
It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.
