But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.
Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
