I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong.

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can't.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.