Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.