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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are very, very happy.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.

I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.