My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.