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It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.