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

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.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is, because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life.

I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

We recognize a soulmate by the supreme level of comfort and security we feel with that person.

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life.

Girls get competitive as though theres only one spot in the world for everything but thats not true. We need to stick together and see theres more to life than pleasing men. Its important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls but you need each other.

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.