I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question 'Well what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate and one size fits all.

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time so go figure.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.