As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.
If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.
The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?
I spend a lot on shoes, but my favourite shoes I've had for 16 years: a pair of black Michel Perry ankle boots with gold lining.
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.
I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.
Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
