I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.
A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire.
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
