What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.

We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all four of them are; they just have to be more accurate.

In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

I'm not Arsene Wenger. We're different. I want to win

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

It's always easy to judge from afar

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football.

We were almost getting used to playing without fans in the Champions League. Jokes aside though, I think help from our fans will be indispensable for such a big match.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...