“The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.”
“We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.”
| Vicente Aleixandre, Poet (1898) |
| Cass Canfield, Publisher (1897) |
| Alice Cary, Poet (1820) |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Writer (1916) |
| Eugene Delacroix, Artist (1798) |
| Giancarlo Esposito, Actor (1958) |
| April Glaspie, Diplomat (1942) |
| Kevin James, Comedian (1965) |
| Curtis Jones, Musician (1968) |
| Greg Laswell, Musician (1974) |
| Hasil Adkins, Musician (2005) |
| Lucille Ball, Comedian (1989) |
| Count Basie, Musician (1984) |
| Augusto Roa Bastos, Novelist (2005) |
| Jill Dando, Journalist (1999) |
| Celia Johnson, Actress (1982) |
| Corliss Lamont, Philosopher (1995) |
| David Lavender, Historian (2003) |