I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.
My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don't even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee.
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.
My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.
I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
