My legs are really long and that is cool apparently, but I am totally klutzy. I mean, I am like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can not control my arms and my really long legs.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it is very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

It is the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

We aren't cool and never will be.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it is difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that is pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that is bad news.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, Oh, baby, if there is a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

It is always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

I do like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

It is cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He is a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like I still go to the projects. I am like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it is so cool?

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It is important to stay grounded.

I think it is really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That is something I strive for.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion was not the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

But, on another level it is really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little off the beaten trail, but cool area.