The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

The beginning is always today.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.