Having an Olympics in your city opens it up to the entire world. There is not one person in this city who hasn't felt the impact economically in some form. |
He clearly wants his daughter to come to the U.S. to college. ... I told him we had a scholarship for her at the University of Georgia. |
I told him you do it by what you write. We're in competition with ourselves. We've got a legacy and we can answer that legacy, ... If it doesn't fly musically, we're not going to do it. |
I was never worried. I thought it was terrific. The venues were gorgeous. |
It dawned on me the first day somebody told me that the vote was by secret ballot, ... that people vote for their friends. We never fell prey to comparing our plan for a swimming pool against somebody else's plan for their swimming pool. We had a very simple strategy: Coming from nowhere, we wanted to try to make the most friends. |
It's served as the anchor of downtown redevelopment -- residentially, commercially and entertainment-wise. But we didn't build it to create the great economic engine it became. We just wanted to have a gathering place for people during the Olympics. |
Little Feat had done risky moves from the get go. You're going to lose people and get people. If they don't get it, it's probably not the first thing they didn't get. Most were middle-aged guys who were still wondering where Lowell was. We try to honor Lowell every time we go on stage. If they like it that's fine. If the audience doesn't show up we'll call it a day. |
Now that this incident has occurred, however, the security officials obviously will be recommending measures to take in light of a known situation, |
People have to have some freedom of movement. |
The course is beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen it look this good. The grass is so green it'll hurt your eyes. |
The direct legacy is we built $650 million of facilities, all of which were given away, cost and debt free to universities, to the city, to county governments. What I am most proud of is that with some residual dollars left over from the Games, we have actively financially supported a very major rowing and canoeing effort in Gainesville [Georgia], which is starting to produce national champions. We have significantly funded, and continue to do so, the Boys and Girls Clubs with a special emphasis on some sports that they have implemented, predominantly for inner cities kids -- judo, team handball. All of those are right on the brink of producing some Olympians as well. |
The fact that it's gossip is exactly why I wanted to keep these private. |
There was a musical vision that wasn't locked into one place. It's a musician's band. We weren't necessarily trying to be a household name so much than make a name within the musical community and shape those things that influenced us. |
There's a strong and indomitable spirit, and it's going to come back even in the midst of our grief. |
We believe we were playing by the rules and regulations and guidelines as we understood them at the time. |