I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.
But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!
Aretha Franklin does not like me.
One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
I hope we're not barred from Argentina - I'd quite like to go back for another ham and cheese sandwich.
Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.
I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.
