We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.