Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.