Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

You can have great sequences with music but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored but you're like 'So what?'

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music great melodies great hooks. But on top of it it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit swagger to the game.

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

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

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.