There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot.
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
