Ahmet Ertegun

My first wife was a theater person.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.