For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, 'Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.' 'Well, it's about Muslims starting jihad.' 'It's about terrorism.' 'It's about this or that.' And no, it's not. It's about money.

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'