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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything.

Democracy is in conflict with individual freedom.

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.