I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

I'm nothing if not honest.