I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.

The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

I was a gymnast for years.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.