I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.