Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex...

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.'

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak...

There are some times when something is proposed which becomes personal to you and you realize the Government is about to do something fantastically stupid and I think in those circumstances one has a...

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I love kids. They're fun and they speak their mind.

I've always felt the easiest way to get to know a new culture is through its food even if you don't speak the language. Food will do it for you. It's a universal language.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent and speak fluently.

To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we're taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that's okay; that's something that's accepted. That's why it's...

I worked for Andy Coulson and he was very clear... that obviously if a story was to come up about me, he had a duty to run it, but he would speak to me about it first.

Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers...

I think there's a real hunger out there for new voices who will speak more truth to power and who are less ensconced in the establishment machine.

Though I can speak only bits and pieces of Gujarati, I can understand it completely.

While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with,...

If people wish to meet you or speak with you, you can say you are still relevant.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to...

When I lived in the U.S., I spoke Portuguese with my mother and grandmother, Spanish with my father and his family, and English with my friends. When we moved to Brasilia, my mother started teaching...

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain...

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first...

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.