In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.
The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.
I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
