Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically both have nothing in common.

We are all part of a tradition at least we depend on the past.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

I do what you won't today, so that I can do what you can't tomorrow.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die.

The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I'm open to anything that will happen to me.

Of course no one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers regardless of the passport they hold.

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.