It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I've been out on the periphery.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Etch out the future on your own design.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

I like going to the gym every day.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!