We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

I'm a very driven ambitious positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well I took to it like a duck to water.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria as I see it is driven by politics more than by science.

My actions to promote peace the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts which very often occurred between brothers of the same country are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear no doubt since I know it could all go away.