Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.'
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
I think 'American Pie' is great.
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
