The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.