I believe in status symbols.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

I believe in status symbols.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

You only struggle because you're ready to grow but aren't willing to let go.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I am happy to play the bad man.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

I don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.