Fats Waller

I love you, yes I do, I love you. If you break my heart I’ll die. So be sure it’s true when you say I love you It’s a sin to tell a lie.

Be sure it’s true when you say I love you. It’s a sin to tell a lie. Millions of heart have been broken. Just because these words were spoken.

If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.

Take it easy, be a sport. Just remeber life is short.

If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

There wasn’t much sex and drugs… well, there wasn’t much drugs!

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Researches reported that they developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

There have been people I’ve warmed to over the years but, as the situation I’m in is so fleeting and transient, I’ve always known it’s going to be over kind of real quick.

[on Trump] He’s like the guy drowning but waving off a lifeboat saying, ‘Get out of here, I’m very buoyant. I’m the most buoyant. Everybody talks about my buoyancy. I’m a tremendous floater.’

I did (training in) tennis, ballet, swing dancing, piano, art class and etiquette. I also did French dialect, but then it was mixing me up with my Southern dialect, so we stuck to Southern!

I’m my worst critic and I always want to give people something better than I gave them before.

I realized that sometimes I move so fast I don’t even see where I’ve been with any great perspective. I look into the now and slightly into the future, but rarely into the past. Searching and querying and mining the great terrain of life and relationships is where I’m at right now.

Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to always be nice.

I spent a long time trying to figure out how to play (Edward’s part) without making a fool out of myself. The whole book is written from Bella’s perspective and she’s in love with him. I mean, the guy can be anybody – he could be an alien – and you see past everything if you’re in love with someone.

No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.