"How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?"

“'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.”

Source : "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

“I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.”

“All right. If you insist. I do not sleep with girls. No, no, no, let me be absolutely accurate. I've gone through the motions of sleeping with girls exactly three times, all of them disastrous. The word for my sex life now is nil. Or as you Americans would say, "plenty of nuttin'.”

“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.”

“One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.”

Source : "Remarks of Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., to the Republican National Convention in San Diego on Tuesday night". www.cnn.com.

“To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.”

“Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.”

“Sex is funny and love is serious.”