I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I've been out on the periphery.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Etch out the future on your own design.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

I live in the paradise of my imagination.

Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Time heals all things.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.

Nothing happens until you decide.

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.