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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

I have faith in my wrestling, faith in my grappling, and faith in my striking.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

Without conflict, all we have and all we are is stagnation.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.