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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co- (stunned pause) ...I did not know that about myself.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.