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.

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.

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.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

I don't want to not be important.

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?