“Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched ...” — Jools Holland Quote

“Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.”

“If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.”

“I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.”

“If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter.”

“You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.”

“I grew up in a cross-town newspaper battle - one of the few left in a news climate where chains had bought most major dailies and many markets had become monopolies. I learned early that two newspapers fighting for scoops and readers meant that readers got better news coverage than they would have gotten if they were served by one paper.”