We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a...

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of different cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in...

Most countries are static, and they need to just keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything...

Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another...

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

I'm more inclined towards old churches and dusty museums.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where...

I've loved Lucknow for its feel, its people and the food.

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

There is great food in Vegas.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many...

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.

I've always loved good music; I'm not really fussed where it comes from.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

Italian people are so proud to show off. A little bit too much, I have to say. Wherever you go, they prepare a buffet and they get offended if you don't try things.

Well, when you grow up in a family situation like in England, you're whole - we call it pub culture, and it is, really. You grow up, you literally come home from work, everyone goes to the pub at...

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with...

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better...

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

A couple of days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I...

So many writers hated us because we represented mainstream America. Forget the music, they just didn't like the idea of us.