What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."