We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.

I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.

Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world.

I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.

Especially in the Dixie Chicks, everyone wants you to play a role. Natalie was the feisty one. Martie was the nice one 'cause she smiles all the time onstage, and I was the quiet one.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

The day Id first cut myself a switch in my head had been flicked. Instead of feeling horror I felt nothing and although I no longer wanted to hurt myself my episodes of self harm still felt normal for me in a way. Id sometimes forget it still shocked other people.

The burning of an authors books imprisonment for opinions sake has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.