It has been pure agony to do this, but it is so meaningful, so real, so necessary. This is not a casual undertaking - we are not deciding to put in a playground. It's health care. It's critical to our future.

It's one of my most pure pieces, and not just the way it looks. Balanchine felt able to not use all his ideas, not to cram in information. I try to achieve that. It's another step closer to some kind of ideal. But it's not so simple as a classical notion of purity.

We're not chasing the really tiny companies that have moved enormous amounts, ... The core companies with meaningful franchises are the places to be.

A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.

I am sorry I had to come off. I had a sore hip - it was agony, ... I could not stand up so I had to come off. I would really have loved to have played on. I thought I was going to get a hat-trick but I enjoyed the other goals.

I believe that pain keeps us pure, and sadness keeps us human. Sometimes the pain that you feel feels like agony, but another part of you tells you to keep goin' on, and you know you don't want to give up, and you just keep on to the end. Besides, those who put you down are actually the ones who are lower than you are.