I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.