I persist in performing.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

I persist in performing.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

True champions arent always the ones that win but those with the most guts.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

There will be days when I don't know if I can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime knowing that I have.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

I went from 250 to, like, 175 in three and a half, four months. And then I ended up graduating with honors. I went from a 2.4 to a 3.06 in a year. It's funny how those two are related. I don't want to say that if you lose weight, you'll get smarter, but... well, it worked for me.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long and it will move about like a snake and strike the other way.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

Blessed are the weird people “ poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters & troubadours “ for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.