This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

Out of what... a thousand?

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.