But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists posse...
You know what's funny to me? Attitude.
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
I enjoy my time alone.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
My first engagement with any art was music.
I was tired of being me.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
