My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.