She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

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.

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.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

I think I could spend an eternity with you, Killian, and never tire of hearing you speak to me.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.