I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

Forward is forward.

I am because I feel.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight.

The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.