“It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.”

That’s not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field?

Players win games, teams win championships.

What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.

I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.