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

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.

We know that people who are born with shorter telomeres than normal also have a shorter lifespan. We know that shorter telomeres can cause a shorter lifespan.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Cricket is my first love.

'Happy Feet' has many felicities.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

I've done a lot of dramas, and I've done a lot of serious stuff - some really heavy stuff... which I loved, but I wanted to do something light and airy. I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.