It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

Love is when you let someone be the way they are.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.