Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.