"Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live."
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
Oscar Wilde on Food"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan on Food"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."
Ronald Reagan on Food"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
Yogi Berra on Food"Beware the hobby that eats."
Benjamin Franklin on Food"I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful."
"So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me."
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."
"Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record."
"I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!"