Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.