I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.
I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.
I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'
We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.
Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.
The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.
In 'Lion King,' the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.
I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed.
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'
Disney movies are a great outing for the entire family, and my children are huge fans of their classics, especially 'The Lion King.'
My dad is a little bit of a softy. I mean, he, like, cries at 'The Lion King,' and I'm kind of, like, his little girl.
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
I’m obsessed with 'Wicked', and I’d love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King' are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in 'Strictly' in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
