There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good plays good company good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that they never translate exactly.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

The way I look at it movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.