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The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.