Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Past is past.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

The public are not stupid.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

Theres a certain edge about cruelty. If youre honest about it most people wince but say it had to be said.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

I believe in telling the truth.

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, 'I'm going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.'

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

On Hillary Clinton's side, she believes she's unaccountable to the American people. She favors these old ideas about government, these - these centralized, top down solutions from Washington that keep insiders in the know and give them influence, but regular Americans have no voice.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.