“I know my mom worked three jobs to pay $300-a-month rent. I know we sh...” — Melody Gardot Quote

“I know my mom worked three jobs to pay $300-a-month rent. I know we shared cans of food for dinner - one can, for a grown woman and a little girl.”

“Music is one of the only things that helps to reconnect neural pathways in our brain: listening, performing, singing, making a verbal attempt to sing along or hum.”

“I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.”

“When I was Belle, I was at the bottom of the high-school food chain. I was a freshman theater student. I was the antithesis of popular high-school student, literally hiding in this corner waiting to go onstage because I was so scared.”

“The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.”

“The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.”