I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

If you end up with the story you started with, you weren't listening along the way.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.