This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

Working moms, stay-at-home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

A champion always prepares to win.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.