I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.
If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.
We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.
When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.
I wanted to do 'Matrix' because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, 'Wow - I've never seen something like that; it's so incredible.'