As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.