Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

When I die I want people to play my music go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Music's not like becoming a doctor who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

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've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Music is very spiritual it has the power to bring people together.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

If it were the Clinton people they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security which the needle is not moving on.

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment in terms of people moving on to do other things because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

Unfortunately overall movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business which can get really ugly.

I like movies about longing and desperation and dark and light things stories about people struggling to raise children and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

Cinema is entertainment and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they you know they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean it's not the way people say it is but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.