The problem for me still today is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last it's just product fed to you by the industry.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

After all in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

It was all about music about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion and now well technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking definitely lacking in music today.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I can tell you one thing Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean it's not the way people say it is but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Even today in our progressive times in most movies that come out the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

Some mornings you wake up and think gee I look handsome today. Other days I think what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Homer is new this morning and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.

In my day at 12 years old which was 38 years ago we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours two hours in the morning and two at night.