I am associated with techno epics.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

I hate having to read the manual.

I am associated with techno epics.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Most women choose abortion precisely because they believe they have no other choice.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

There are only two options regarding commitment. Youre either in or out. Theres no such thing as a life in between.

I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing's records regularly spilling out over WNEW.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.