I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.

So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

China is in its own category too big to ignore too repressive to embrace difficult to influence and very very proud.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science fiction so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I'm an old trial lawyer.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'