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

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.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Blood and death. That moves me.

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

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town