I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long a quieter voice seems attractive.

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer uploading bad music for hours when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

I think more than writers the major influences on me have been European movies jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Obviously I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I can write all the way through the morning when my mind is clear and there are no distractions.