You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Freddy Newandyke: I gotta memorize all this? There's over four fucking pages of this shit!
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
If you're a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I'm very serious. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird. I'm cold, I don't have many emotions. It's very rare I cry.
The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.
The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
