In these confused times the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical music and I needed a time-out.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

As a rule my focus is on classical music but I love jazz. I love everything actually.

Every so often I feel I should graduate to classical music properly. But the truth is I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop classical and opera.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful and successful.

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.

I'm a big kid I'm a kid at heart so I still love the classic family films such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake but the original. It's still one of the best movies hands down ever made and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.