When you play a tiebreaker, you dont have time to think of anything, ... You have to go for your shots because one shot can make such a difference. T….

I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983..

The old Lena is dead..

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was d….

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play..

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You ….

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the po….

He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter w….

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at fi….

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because th….

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good..

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm no….

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that….

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say….

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy..

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't w….

"eL Seed" was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing "Le Cid" coming from the Arabic name "el sayed," which means "the….

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays..