American Quotes

I love every kind of music.

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

I don't do earrings.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

I paint with shapes.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.