I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.