"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."

"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."

"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

"My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life."

"I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things."

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."