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.

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

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.

The information received from dreams is truly the greatest guidance anyone could ever ask for." The Giant Compass

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

God is a luxury I can't afford.

My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.